Today @POTUS delivered on his promise to eliminate two existing regulations for each new one created. I'm happy to announce we blew it out of the water with a 22-to-1 ratio!#CutTheRedTape @OMBPress pic.twitter.com/up6g6IW844
— Mick Mulvaney (@MickMulvaneyOMB) December 14, 2017
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New Operating System and an 8 year old i Mac do NOT mix.
New iMac and everyone is smiling again
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Trump has PLENTY of Regulatory targets to aim at and every one that bites the dust means that ‘The Man’s” foot is taken just little bit more off the neck of the public.
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@ Aussie Infidel:
The Puti (3rd grade) had to do a presentation on a tradition from another country.
she picked the Haka all by herself. her classmates got schooled on All Black Rugby.
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@ coldwarrior:
You’re just going to haul her down under so that she can see one in the flesh!
Holiday house is starting to get its act together. The refrigerator now fits the hole and the washing machine’s float switch has been reset. The ole TV gets wall hung and connected to the sports channel ….. The Ashes Test between the Aussies and the Brits is in full swing on the second day at the WACA (West Australian Cricket Association) ground and all is right with the world.
The Brits scored 403 in their first innings and the Aussies are 146 for 2. The two openers had a 70+ run partnership before they were broken up by a bit of athleticism at Silly Point at the end of day 2 with the match evenly balanced so far. Three days to go and the pitch is beginning to dry out and should develop some cracks by the end of day 4 and that’s going to make it ‘interesting’ for the Aussies batting last. The WACA is normally hard and fast so not much can be expected from the ‘spinners’ but the seamers (pace men) will have a field day playing into the cracks and causing all manner of problems for the Aussies with 140-160 Km / Hr balls with turn both in the air and off the pitch.
Bliss !
It must be summer
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The ‘Swamp’ is actually quite shallow and the fishing is great because the ‘swamps’ are such an arrogant bunch of ‘corruptocrats’ that they believe their own propaganda, couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery, are full of themselves without supporting evidence that they are actually ‘elitist’ and are too stupid to lie consistently.
The ‘swampies’ are third rate ‘corrupt-ocrats”
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Steyn thinks so as well but he puts it more succulently than I
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https://www.steynonline.com/8327/the-co-dependents-of-the-independent-counsel
@ Aussie Infidel:
Read that article. Good one. Just wish Mark wouldn’t put up pay wall in order to comment though.
I have been in embarrasing exchange (for him) with an east coast liberal on another board. I won’t bring up politics, but he cannot help himself with the “Trump and russian collusion” bollocks and claims to have an inside source at the FBI. I have been roasting him. After mentioning the IG’s report from the DOJ he exploded and wanted to know, “who is paying you to make those comments?!” He never challenges the content, but always the fevered re-hashed media Claims sprinkled with insults.
I have forgotten how much fun this can be.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
i was marveling last night at how much warmer a windless 9F is…as opposed to 20F and wind…
it must be winter.
Mainstream media in 2013: “Conspiracy Theorists!” Mainstream media in 2017: “ISIS Got a Powerful Missile the CIA Bought!”
propagandists.
but now, everyone sees straight through them
@ coldwarrior:
funny how that works,yeah.
it’s 32,cloudy and windy
Feels cold
@ coldwarrior:
@ rain of lead:
winter weather advisory from 1-7 pm today.
fortunately, I have no reason to leave the house, except to walk the dog. That particular chore may or may not happen.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Let me guess…you upgraded to High Sierra and found your 2009 iMac wasn’t supported. Yep. that’s understandable! I’m probably going to have to make that jump in about 2 years.
eaglesoars wrote:
Snicker snicker… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N3gyhgHhe8
Good morning. I have been out of town all week in Tampa, so pretty much all I am getting is USA Today.
There constant Trump trashing seems like a mental disorder , no slur or allegation is off limits.
It may not meet the legal definition of defamation, but it does meet the common sense threshold.
@ RIX:
Did you see their editorial the other day where they said Trump wasn’t “fit to clean the restrooms at the Obama Presidential Library”?
https://www.weaselzippers.us/367651-liangelo-ball-ucla-made-me-thank-trump-after-release-from-chinese-jail/
@WZ
This is gratitude? The kids fell of of pops ttree and hit every branch on tithe way down.
lobo91 wrote:
Sure did , and I donât remember reading any5hing in an MSM editor editorial quite that bad.
The Media has trashed whatever credibility that the had left, itâs off of the rails now.
@ RIX:
I should check before I send, right?
@ doriangrey:
don’t laugh. she actually did that to me about 2-3 mos ago. Broke a toe, damaged 2 teeth. took off after a squirrel and I tripped over a seam in the sidewalk (I think that’s what I tripped over, who knows). Oh, yeah, and a $200 pair of sunglasses totaled.
@ eaglesoars:
Quickly scratches Robodogwalker off eaglesoars Christmas present list…. /runs and hides…
RIX wrote:
i expected nothing less from that racist piece of shit family.
i caught espn basketball talk show on espn, it was on the tv in our break-room…even the commentators were appalled by the arrogance and lack of gratitude of that family.
one guy said that that little comment will cost that kid millions later because he just proved that he is immature and does not understand how the world works. he said that maybe trump should have left him in jail in china for a month or so. but, that isnt how trump works. frankly, trump made all of them look like fools.
lobo91 wrote:
They’re just pissed that they’re being assholes and Trump isn’t paying any attention to them.
@ eaglesoars:
we flew a lady to level 1 trauma/neuro center because of a dog walk trip. she had a bad brain bleed and was crumping fast.
the home studio for the girls is coming along nicely..and loudly!
there will be a raucous, joyous noise christmas morning!
@ coldwarrior:
The father is an insipid arrogant blow hard. He raised his kids to be low rent punks.
How stupid are you to shoplift in China? My dog is an intellectual compared to this family.
coldwarrior wrote:
I have since put a choke collar on her when we walk. It’s an addition to the harness. Most control goes thru the harness, but when she starts to take off like that, the choke stops her cold. I hated to do it but every dog trainer I talked to told me that given we’re talking about a beagle, there’s instinct at work and there’s no training her out of it. One trainer just let me have it and asked what would have happened if the squirrel she was after had been across a heavily traveled highway, because I lost the leash in all this. Willow was half a block away, climbing a tree. It’s one thing for me to get hurt, it’s another for her to get dead.
coldwarrior wrote:
do they know this is in the works? or is it a complete surprise?
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
you know there is probably A LOT of truth to that.
Fox is reporting Rubio will be a ‘yes’ on the tax bill
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-15/stocks-yields-dollar-surge-news-rubio-yes-tax-bill
coldwarrior wrote:
If this ungrateful little twit had been WHITE and this had been the OBAMA administration, the Prez would have engaged in a lot of speechifyin’ and not lifted a finger to help him.
Interesting that the so-called “White Supremacist” POTUS wasted no time in facilitating their release and getting them safely home.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
What they can not stand is that Trump is a really good president. So they invent new metrics to measure
success and their all bogus. They canât deny the improving economy, so they credit Obama,
Eight years of an economic mess, by the gets credit for a recovery when he leaves ?
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
Otto Warmbier in North Korea
Trump would have had a naval blockade and B-52 overflights 7-24
eaglesoars wrote:
they know, sort of…they dont get the scope of it tho.
@ coldwarrior:
you must take pics and post them so we can see their faces!
eaglesoars wrote:
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a loud video!
Does anyone have an answer to this question? I’ve been trying to pin down WHEN McCain gave the dossier to the FBI. Of course, we know they already had it, having been given to them by the Clinton campaign. If I had to speculate, they needed to have a credible SECOND and more public source that they could point to later if asked how they came by it. I’ve always maintained that McCain did this at Hillary’s request in exchange for the promise of a plum cabinet post, but I’m wondering if he gave it to the FBI after the election. In which case, what did he had to gain – other than revenge?
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
December 2016 – during a private mtg w/Comey IIrRC
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
no. this may interest you and it’s the reason some people suspect British intelligence was involved
Just after the U.S. presidential election in November 2016, Arizona GOP Sen. McCain spoke at the same security conference. Wood says he was instructed â by former British spy Christopher Steele â to reach out to the senior Republican, whom Wood called âa good man,â about the unverified document.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/11/inside-trump-dossier-handoff-mccains-go-between-speaks-out.html
just remember this little item when people pour scorn on those who did not trust Moore’s accusers because they suspected a lot of those women were being paid WOMEN DON’T TAKE MONEY FOR THAT!!
A well-known womenâs rights lawyer sought to arrange compensation from donors and tabloid media outlets for women who made or considered making sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump during the final months of the 2016 presidential race, according to documents and interviews.
California lawyer Lisa Bloomâs efforts included offering to sell alleged victimsâ stories to TV outlets in return for a commission for herself, arranging a donor to pay off one Trump accuserâs mortgage and attempting to secure a six-figure payment for another woman who ultimately declined to come forward after being offered as much as $750,000, the clients told The Hill.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/365068-exclusive-prominent-lawyer-sought-donor-cash-for-two-trump-accusers
It’s ok to print this now that Moore’s been defeated
@ eaglesoars:
I was JUST coming to post this.
She needs to be investigated and DISBARRED. Just like her mother.
@ eaglesoars:
Here’s the problem with the Moore “accusers”. Only TWO of them allege sexual contact – and one was a 14-year-old who said he messed around with her on BOTH dates she had with him. Of course, at 14 in Alabama at the time, one could get married with your parents’ consent. The other “underage” woman is that effing liar Nelson, who should be sued in civil court for defamation. Oh and look who HER spokesliar is – the womb that that walking turd BLOOM dropped out of.
All the others, as far as I know, are saying that a 30-year-old Moore was blatantly flirting with them and trying to “pick them up” at the mall or dated them but do not allege improper sexual conduct. THESE accusers were 18 or older as I recall. Please let me know if my understanding is incorrect.
And I guess Elvis and Brian Wilson were also pedophiles according to the MSM. They were in their 20’s when they started dating the 14-year-olds they would eventually marry.
Brady is all smiles, sez he has all the signatures “it’s done”
I don’t know what they gave Rubio, but……..
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
Jerry Seinfeld was 34 when he was dating a 17 yr old Soshona somebody and the entirety of Hollywood thought “DUDE!!”
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
@ eaglesoars:
oh yeah. didn’t Jerry Lee Lewis marry a 12 yr old?
@ eaglesoars:
13-year-old daughter of his cousin. But in thruth he DID catch a lot of flack for that one.
coldwarrior wrote:
Crisp dry calm cold … GOOD
Wet and or windy cold …. BAD
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Deplorable Macker wrote:
Bingo !
High Sierra is so demanding that my poor reliable 8 year old iMac just couldn’t cut it anymore.
It’s now out to pasture just running SKYPE , an e-Mailer with a wee bit of web access via Safari but running an old but supported Operating System at the holiday house at the beach through a wireless dongle link until the beach gets hooked into fast fibre late next year when the whole country is on fast fibre.
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RIX wrote:
Alas your proud country is now totally split right down the centre with little actual useful communication and what communication there is if just slurs and fake news (propaganda). Truly dangerous as this is how civil wars break out
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
HIS COUSIN’S DAUGHTER??? blimey…
It’s sleeting outside and this cold still sucketh. Nap time.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I don’t think it’s split down the middle. I think the progs are seriously outnumbered, it’s just they have more prominent and numerous sympathetic media outlets.
Which fits in with the ‘fake news’ item, but overlooks the fact that we know there is fake news and it’s identified as such very quickly. That tells me the media is not lost either. Especially with this ruling against Net Neutrality yesterday – that would have made the internet right out of Orwell.
*yawn*
later
@ doriangrey:
a package of christmas wonderfulness is headed to you. should be there mid week.
Of course she did
Federal judge blocks Trump rollback of ObamaCare birth control mandate
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/365148-federal-judge-blocks-trump-repeal-of-obamacare-birth-control-mandate
@ eaglesoars:
And off to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals we GO!
Hard to read the 3rd. Might uphold, in which case knowing Trump it’s on to SCOTUS where Roberts will have an opportunity for redemption now that Obama is gone.
its 5o’clock somewhere…almost here!
NEW THREAD!
The problem w/the Trump presidency is that he’s getting so much done in such a short period of time, that anybody who follows him is going to be dealing with much more demanding expectations.
Trump Admin To Remove Climate Change From List Of National Security Threats
http://thefederalist.com/2017/12/15/trump-admin-to-remove-climate-change-from-list-of-national-security-threats/