Here’s an open thread.
Off to work.
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The Holidays Have Gotten Me Sick Again.
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/946187022955307008
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/12/golden-showers-former-obama-campaign-manager-david-axelrods-son-calls-flotus-melania-prostitute/
@ Gateway Pundit
Greetings. David Axlerods kid has all the class of a banana spider. Complete douche.
@ RIX:
Back in the day that would cause a duel
The Great Lakes will be frozen in 36 hours. It took 4 days. That is how damned cold it is.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yup, today it should at least cause a defamation suit.
@ RIX:
Lawyers replaced fists and dueling pistols
Use station zebra.
RIX wrote:
So, in accordance with their use policies, is Twitter going to remove this posting and temporarily ban Richard Cranium Axelrod? Because you know if you made a Wookie or Bigfoot reference to the former FLOTUS, that would have violated those policies. People were banned for that IIRC
This is very cool. Video of a bubble freezing at minus 35. Also, quite beautiful
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=90d_1514573745&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Looks like things are getting real in Iran. And maybe something odd that I haven’t chased down. Jordan has arrested 3 in a coup attempt – backed by Saudi Arabia? I don’t believe that, I don’t know what’s up with that.
@ coldwarrior:
Looking at his Twitter feed in response to this comment, he’s a sad sick little attention whore that wants to the world to notice him. By picking on a woman who has exhibited nothing but charm and grace.
Oh and by the way, learned from Mark Steyn yesterday on the Rush Limbaugh show that Trump’s approval ratings are EXACTLY the same as Obama’s at this point in his Presidency. And Obama had a fawning press whereas Trump has war waging on two fronts domestically. I think when people see those paychecks after 2/1/18 they are going to be going PFFT. Even Black and Hispanic employment is on the rise. Oblahblah only cared about how many he could keep on welfare.
State Dept on Iran – they’re treading lightly here
The U.S. strongly condemns the arrest of peaceful protesters. We urge all nations to publicly support the Iranian people & their demands for basic rights & an end to corruption.”
I don’t know if this means anything – but the last time – the ‘green revolution’ – the gov’t shut down all cell communication, etc. That doesn’t seem to be happening this time, there’s a lot of stuff getting out of the country. So either the technology has outrun the gov’t ability to contain it – or the security service responsible for interdicting it is refusing to do so. Or something else I haven’t thought of.
Interesting that “The Post” has been in 9 theaters since 12/22 and has grossed about $1.2MM. I’ll assume this is in major metropolitan areas where #TheResistance will be flocking to it. I also assume this early release in 2017 was so Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks could garner Oscar nominations for Spielberg’s “this is why the press is SO important” diatribe. I’ve seen the ads – sorry, but Jason Robards Jr. is the ultimate Ben Bradlee – Hanks looks like a Grandpa with his pants hiked up too high. And Streep will probably bring all the authenticity to Katie Graham that she did to Julia Child.
It goes into general realase on January 11th, the day before “the Commuter”, which is a thriller, is released. And I’ll imagine Star Wars will still be major box office at the time. And let’s not forget that Streep and Hanks have pretty much, by their antics and their words, DOOMED this movie in Trump country. The budget was $50 million. I say the only way it even gets it back is liberal schools forcing kids to sit through this.
And ah yes, the taglines…..”this coverup spanned four Presidents…” Yeah, and THREE of them were Democrats. But you watch – somehow they are going to find a way to make it all about Nixon, who had NOTHING to do with it.
Oh and can someone tell me exactly WHAT publishing the Pentagon Papers actually accomplished, other than to plague us with that phrase “The people have a right to know” that apparently means something entirely different when a Democrat is in office?
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
I’m waiting for Clooney’s movie on Watergate. wonder who gets to play Nixon. Clooney might see it as an Oscar-bait role
coldwarrior wrote:
That’s the truth.
@ lobo91:
and to think none of it would have been found if Carlos Danger hadn’t been nailed for sexting a minor.
AZfederalist wrote:
Double standard. Shockah!
eaglesoars wrote:
Still waiting for something to actually come of it
lobo91 wrote:
I think we’re all going to get really good at that
From kindergartens to high schools, from prisons to anyone who’s simply lost their ID, China is conducting the world’s most aggressive campaign to collect DNA from its population – with or without permission, in what it is calling a “high-tech security blanket” used to better monitor its 1.4 billion citizens, the WSJ reports
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-28/china-quietly-builds-worlds-largest-dna-database
The Chinese Consulate in Auckland has Chinese r lined up out the gate and around the block to give DNA samples.
The beginning of the Chinese version of 1984 !
Sorry, all, for the downer thread.
It was all I could think of this morning when I noticed comments were closed for the previous one before work this morning. People were sick at the in-laws over Christmas dinner.
Ugh.
This is interesting. The KGB papers. I’m not yet sure what to make of it. This purports to be from the KGB manual on training recruits and it’s mixed in with a mini-drama of attempted Russian infiltration of the Trump campaign.
Have at it
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-kgb-papers-how-putin-learned-his-spycraft-part-1
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
are you feeling better?
@ lobo91:
New years in Berlin was insane!
Too bad muzz ruined it
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Ice station zebra….I didn’t get to post. The electrons are all froze here….
Thx!
@ lobo91:
So – California stops shipping fruit to Texas? Is that the idea? So the farmers go broke? Great idea.
Hep A is near-epidemic levels in Cali sanctuary cities, leprosy just popped up in a school, TB…the fire dept has to hose down the streets to get rid of human waste. The ‘sanctions’ have already begun, but they’re in the other direction. These places are self-destructing and the only question is whether the refugees will be allowed to re-settle in places that require people to not use the streets as toilets
@ eaglesoars:
No, but thanks for asking!
Honestly, this morning I just felt it coming on. Glands were letting me know.
Really only starting to hit now.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
did you get your flu shot?
Minot, ND (58701)
-17°
PARTLY CLOUDY
feels like -42°
H — L -27°
UV Index 0 of 10
Don’t know if anyone saw Lindsay Graham on Tucker’s show. He’s pissed. He said he wants a special counsel because he now knows what the FBI did with the dossier and altho he couldn’t go into specifics, he said a prosecutor is supposed to be truthful about evidence and the FBI wasn’t. So, he basically said the FBI used the dossier to justify the FISA warrant.
bedtime.
CNN has spent the evening diligently ignoring Iran. It’s “the white truck” all the way down.
Same for all the Obamabots who got us into that Iran deal, Ben Rhodes, et. al. I imagine they’re all huddling to come up with some ‘narrative’. They’d better hurry up, Trump tweeted about it about 20 mins ago and these people cannot bear to not cover a Trump tweet.
Sleep well, stay warm, Bummr I hope you get better.
@ lobo91:
Bill idiot needs to look at constitution and fed code.
@ eaglesoars:
That was very cool
coldwarrior wrote:
Yep. Something in there about “regulate interstate and foreign commerce”. One of the driving reasons for the Constitution because in the Federation of States, states were imposing tariffs and other penalties on interstate commerce. Fed should come down hard on anything like that
In the garagemahal up north….our rockstar on the satellite music.
Top notch volume
Exquisitely bone crushing cold.
Pain
Woe
Hweat, we gar Dana….
@ coldwarrior:
I have a medical question:
I got my annual TB test on Tuesday. Left forearm. Negative reaction (looks like a small bruise, but not raised at all).
This morning, I noticed that I have a matching spot on my right forearm. After thinking about it, I realized that was where they did the test last year.
Have you ever heard of anything like that before? I’m not particularly worried about it. Just seems weird.
yesterday they said there would be no snow..so of course……..
Good morning. Wisconsin plays the Fightin Felons of the U tonight.
Go Badgers, ya hey!
It’s 8 degrees, on the way to a high of 17, 12 tomorrow and 14 Monday. Low is 0 tomorrow night.
I’m hibernating.
Bret Stephens writes in the New York Times that even though he is happy with the policy achievements of the Trump Administration in its first year, he will never support Donald Trump because he is offended by the president’s personality:
“Tax cuts. Deregulation. More for the military; less for the United Nations. The Islamic State crushed in its heartland. Assad hit with cruise missiles. Troops to Afghanistan. Arms for Ukraine. A tougher approach to North Korea. Jerusalem recognized as Israel’s capital. The Iran deal decertified. Title IX kangaroo courts on campus condemned. Yes to Keystone. No to Paris. Wall Street roaring and consumer confidence high.
And, of course, Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. What, for a conservative, is there to dislike about this policy record as the Trump administration rounds out its first year in office?
That’s the question I keep hearing from old friends on the right who voted with misgiving for Donald Trump last year and now find reasons to like him. I admit it gives me pause. I agree with every one of the policy decisions mentioned above. But I still wish Hillary Clinton were president.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/30/nevertrumper-bret-stephens-whines-trumps-policy-victories-dont-matter-because-hes-a-bully/
From Jonathan Turley:
lobo91 wrote:
Turley and Alan Dershowitz are liberal Democrats who engage in felonious conduct, common sense and fairness.
Dershowitz is already being shunned on the NYC cocktail circuit for heresy.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
All of which proves Brett Stephens is incapable of judging character. Including his own
@ eaglesoars:
I think he’s a perfect representative of the truly elitist America, and that they need to be identified and roundly shunned.
Apparently, policy doesn’t make one iota of difference in their lives. (Or at least they don’t currently think it does)
Therefore any commentary they may have on policy is utterly moot.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/trump-finally-gives-up-on-pakistan-cuts-military-aid-worth-255-million/story-XCbEXK3C9s7w4vN1nye7gN.html
Hey look!
It’s more sh*t Bret Stephens would like if only Donald Trump hadn’t been responsible for it.
lobo91 wrote:
Hmmm….you may gave been exposed to TB….
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
I’ll never forget Stephens et. al. cautioning us all about Obama’s character when he invited that rapper who had just released an album using an assassinated POTUS as cover art, or all the visits to the WH by the Muslim Brotherhood, and oh, yes, Reverend Wright’s comment that the Jews wouldn’t allow Obama to invite HIM to the WH, or the time Obama made the Dali Lama use the dumpster entrance – but hey, at least he got IN – or the time he left Bibi sitting in the Oval while he had dinner w/his family but didn’t invite Bibi to join them – but of course none of that compares to Trump’s ‘equivocal’ comment on Charlottesville which said nothing more than ‘there were some good people there’.
I’m so impressed with the moral clarity these betters provide that I cannot wait to hear how appeasement of the mullahs with nuclear weapons they will undoubtedly use to wipe Israel off the map was the wiser course than staying the fuck out of the way as their own people shed their blood trying to overthrow them.
I just got a 4K TV.
I’m now reading multiple things before setting up telling me that I either do or do not need a new “4K” HDMI cable to take advantage of the resolution.
Anyone have any experience?
Or will the resolution not be televised?
Iran update.
They’ve started to shut down communications avenues now, and there’s considerably more violence. Some fatalities but I really can’t get a good fix. It certainly doesn’t sound like the all-out kill-them-all method used in 2009 (remember the Basij on the motorbikes?) but they are starting to crack down.
The Obama media cohort are running gov’t provided video. I can see both and compare to what CNN is putting up so it’s obvious. They are consistently putting out the warning that any expressed support for the protestors will be used by the gov’t to say that the protestors are CIA pawns, etc. In other words, shut up.
One very odd thing.
General Qasem Soleimani meets Qom grand Shia scholars
An article, dated Dec 28, w/an undated photo. Soleimani WAS the head of the Revolutionary Guards. There is a ton of evidence that says he was killed in Syria (in early December I believe) and they’ve been trying to hide it. I’ve seen pictures purporting to show him – and it’s a life-size GI Joe mannequin. No joke.
So on Dec 28 they were already feeling the heat and hauled out the dead guy.
http://en.abna24.com/news/pictures/general-qasem-soleimani-meets-qom-grand-shia-scholars_874579.html
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
The resolution will not be televised unless you get the HDMI cable.
@ doriangrey:
Need to buy a 4K cable. Check.
Thanks much.
Did you know there is an exception to attorney-client privilege? Me neither.
under the crime-fraud exception to that privilege, communications are not deemed confidential if they are in furtherance of a crime, fraud, or civil wrong — which includes a scheme to dupe the government or undermine an investigation
Andrew McCarthy explains it and suggests it be used against the Clintonistas. Cheryl Mills gets to testify before a grand jury……
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455020/hillary-clinton-server-emails-erased-technician-should-be-pressured
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Yea, basically. 4k Capable TV’s are exactly that. Capable of displaying 4k High definition images. But before they can do so, they must have a source for those 4k signals.
I am going to assume that you already realize that this probably means a change in your service provider contract/bundle. Having a 4k capable TV and the correct HDMI cable connected to a device (Cable modem, TV box, DVD player whatever) capable of delivering that 4k signal gets you exactly…. Half way there. Now you need a source for that 4k content. That will depend on where you obtain your TV service.
For example; Amazon FireWire
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201859000
https://www.amazon.com/4K-UHD-TV-Resource-Guide/b?ie=UTF8&node=10195182011
@ eaglesoars:
Remember Lynn Stewart, the (former) attorney who was passing messages for the Blind Sheikh? She ended up in federal prison for it.
@ eaglesoars:
The Clintons have relied heavily on bogus attorney-client privilege claims forever.
Whenever they were going to discuss something illegal in meetings at the Clinton White House, they would send everyone out of the room who wasn’t a lawyer. They then thought they could claim attorney-client privilege if anyone asked about it later.
Totally bogus claim, of course. The simple fact that one party to a criminal conspiracy has a law degree doesn’t grant them any magic powers.
lobo91 wrote:
I’d forgotten that! Wasn’t it McCarthy who prosecuted the Sheikh?
@ eaglesoars:
I believe so
@ coldwarrior:
Dang I really should get that movie. ICE Station Zebra that is!
@ lobo91:
@ eaglesoars:
Good thing she is no longer walking this earth….
@ Deplorable Macker:
hi! what’s up? It actually got balmy here today – 37
CNN is getting slammed for its coverage or lack thereof – of the protests in Iran.
Here is a Jan 18 2017 interview of Jeff Zucker w/NY Mag
there’s only one television network that is seen in Beijing, Moscow, Seoul, Tokyo, Pyongyang, Baghdad, Tehran, and Damascus — and that’s CNN.
So, this is all about access. If they don’t toe the gov’t line, they get kicked out.
Wasn’t that Jason Eason’s rationale for sucking up to Saddam for years?
eaglesoars wrote:
name was Eason Jordan. jeez.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Because you are a dumb@$$! Good grief these NeverTrumpers are a trial, aren’t they?
Wisconsin beating the Miami Correctional Facilty 24 to 14 at the half.
With less than a minute left in the half the Miami coach pitches a fit on the side line laying hands on the ref.
He draws a 15 yd penalty but no ejection! the rule is clear , he should have been ejected.
This is Miami, even the coach is a punk.
NatGeo has published its “Best Photos of 2017” that I was so looking forward to. Out of 2 million pics, they chose 57.
And it REEKS of political correctness. 2 are of transgendered CHILDREN – two! – and one of Obama snorkeling. I counted maybe 8 that deserve to be on the list.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/best-of-2017/best-pictures/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_tw20171222photo-bestphotos&utm_campaign=Content&sf176335553=1
Francis Townsend, Nat. Sec. chick is retweeting this and I trust her judgement.
#BREAKING NEWS: Protesters have gained full control of the city of Kashan, Iran; they also captured police stations and weapons within that city.
there are some interesting videos in the thread.
https://twitter.com/NewsAlertHQ/status/947216224873787392
@ doriangrey:
Well, I need a new cable box.
But the Netflix comes in 4K, and I’m assuming Amazon Prime as well.
Maybe I’ll look more into cutting the cord and streaming.
AZfederalist wrote:
The more that I think about this, this is more than him being a dumb@$$ — this is truly evil If Hillary were president, not only would none of those things have happened, the exact opposite would have happened to the detriment of our economic security and at the cost of more of our freedoms. That is pure out and out elitism where he lives in a bubble such that he knows nothing will really impact his life, but he gives not a single care to the impacts on regular citizens of this country.
@ AZfederalist:
That’s because it makes no difference to him.
He believes to the core that he and his ilk are above policy.
It’s disgusting, but I fear a very widespread notion among all of the counties surrounding DC and most of the I-95 corridor.
@ AZfederalist:
not to mention that the supposed violation of the national virtue credited to Trump’s lack of character would apparently have remained intact if we had a POTUS; with American blood on her hands; who SOLD Special Access Programs information [that she was not cleared to possess] to our enemies in return for donations to the Clinton Foundation; who employed as her closest aide a woman who is clearly owned by the Muslim Brotherhood; who made every effort to destroy the victims of her husband’s sexual assaults; and who has a truly remarkable list of enemies who have conveniently died under mysterious circumstances.
Obviously, this is not about ‘character’. This is about the basest class snobbery AND from the male of the nevertrump species, sexual insecurity. There is nothing more self-gratifying than to find a cohort you can hold in contempt and have it validated throughout your entire life. To discover that said cohort not only does not envy you, does not aspire to be you, but holds you in even deeper contempt, is literally world-shattering. Donald Trump is a 70 yr old man who by all rights should be fading quietly into his gilded dotage. Instead, he stomps across the world stage with testosterone-fueled energy accompanied by one of the world’s most beautiful women, and they’ve always known that “Make America Great Again” is code for “Kiss My Ass”.
He has shown them that they’re not what they were so sure they are and that they never were and never will be.
They really, really, really, do not matter at all.
bedtime. The latest I’ve heard on Iran – and no way to verify if it’s correct or just people jumping up and down – there appears to be an unusual number of flights with no call signs leaving the country. Flights w/no call signs are not unknown, they usually are transporting stuff for Syria, i.e., military efforts. It’s just that the volume tonight is striking some observers as unusual.
poke…
Poke…
POKE!!!!!!!
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Happy New Year homies. Here is the video of Miami Coach Mark Richt grabbing an official.
This just pulled a 15 yard penalty , not an ejection. But Karma, it set up a Wisconsin touchdown.
At a reputable university this would at least pull a suspension, and I will bet at Northwestern a dismissal.
http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/21921491/capital-one-orange-bowl-mark-richt-miami-hurricanes-touches-official
https://thewildernessofmirrors.wordpress.com/2017/12/31/happy-new-year/
@ doriangrey:
Nicely done, picked up in the comments at Conservative Treehouse.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/12/31/december-31st-2017-presidential-politics-trump-administration-day-346/comment-page-2/#comment-4790495
@ CynicalConservative:
Sweet, Tazz has been a reader of my blog for quiet some time, he’s one of the good guys.