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Some Things Never Change

by coldwarrior ( 208 Comments › )
Filed under History at January 17th, 2018 - 8:45 am

Twenty Years Ago Today

 

Web Posted: 01/17/98 21:32:02 PST -- NEWSWEEK KILLS STORY ON WHITE HOUSE INTERN X X X X X BLOCKBUSTER REPORT: 23-YEAR OLD, FORMER WHITE HOUSE INTERN, SEX RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT

 



Web Posted: 01/17/98 23:32:47 PST -- NEWSWEEK KILLS STORY ON WHITE HOUSE INTERN

BLOCKBUSTER REPORT: 23-YEAR OLD, FORMER WHITE HOUSE INTERN, SEX RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT

**World Exclusive**
**Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT**

At the last minute, at 6 p.m. on Saturday evening, NEWSWEEK magazine killed a story that was destined to shake official Washington to its foundation: A White House intern carried on a sexual affair with the President of the United States!

The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that reporter Michael Isikoff developed the story of his career, only to have it spiked by top NEWSWEEK suits hours before publication. A young woman, 23, sexually involved with the love of her life, the President of the United States, since she was a 21-year-old intern at the White House. She was a frequent visitor to a small study just off the Oval Office where she claims to have indulged the president’s sexual preference. Reports of the relationship spread in White House quarters and she was moved to a job at the Pentagon, where she worked until last month.

The young intern wrote long love letters to President Clinton, which she delivered through a delivery service. She was a frequent visitor at the White House after midnight, where she checked in the WAVE logs as visiting a secretary named Betty Curry, 57.

The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that tapes of intimate phone conversations exist.

The relationship between the president and the young woman become strained when the president believed that the young woman was bragging about the affair to others.

NEWSWEEK and Isikoff were planning to name the woman. Word of the story’s impeding release caused blind chaos in media circles; TIME magazine spent Saturday scrambling for its own version of the story, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. The NEW YORK POST on Sunday was set to front the young intern’s affair, but was forced to fall back on the dated ABC NEWS Kathleen Willey break.

The story was set to break just hours after President Clinton testified in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.

Ironically, several years ago, it was Isikoff that found himself in a shouting match with editors who were refusing to publish even a portion of his meticulously researched investigative report that was to break Paula Jones. Isikoff worked for the WASHINGTON POST at the time, and left shortly after the incident to build them for the paper’s sister magazine, NEWSWEEK.

Michael Isikoff was not available for comment late Saturday. NEWSWEEK was on voice mail.

The White House was busy checking the DRUDGE REPORT for details.

The day the Feminist movement died and the day that the complicity of  the MSM was laid open for all to see.

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  1. eaglesoars
    2 | January 17, 2018 9:19 am

    The feminist movement and the MSM are still kicking but they’re racist. Cory Booker’s faux hysterical rant directed at a white female who is part of the power structure has gone completely unremarked by both.

    Reverse the circumstances and imagine a white male Congress Critter screaming at a black woman giving testimony.

    He’d be censured and recalled before the day was over.


  2. rain of lead
    3 | January 17, 2018 9:23 am

    morning y’all


  3. coldwarrior
    4 | January 17, 2018 9:47 am

    billy-jeff clinton gets to rape and abuse interns nad is given a pass by the left

    weinstein gets destroyed over it, by the same folks who excused billy-jeff’s behavior.

    hilary had billy-jeff’s accusers destroyed one by one.

    sux to be a friend of bill, eh?


  4. eaglesoars
    5 | January 17, 2018 9:59 am

    @ rain of lead:

    morning. The weather report is: just a dusting of snow, but the wind is up, we’ll be lucky if it hits 30, so very little, if any, time outside stuff today.


  5. rain of lead
    6 | January 17, 2018 10:18 am

    cold and snowy here
    won’t get above freezing until Thursday afternoon


  6. eaglesoars
    7 | January 17, 2018 10:28 am

    @ rain of lead:

    my sister sent me pics of her grandsons in Macon Georgia playing in the snow. At 6:30 this morning.

    Macon. Georgia.


  7. coldwarrior
    9 | January 17, 2018 12:33 pm

    its a good day to make shepherd’s pie.

    yep.


  8. rain of lead
    10 | January 17, 2018 1:01 pm

    @ coldwarrior:

    yep


  9. coldwarrior
    11 | January 17, 2018 2:51 pm

    GREAT: Manufacturing Output Rises Further…

    Stock market optimism highest in 32 years…

    APPLE investing $350 billion in USA; 20,000 jobs…

    et cetera et cetera

    i take take all this wining!


  10. coldwarrior
    13 | January 17, 2018 4:19 pm

    AYE! parsnips. there must be parsnips in the shepherd’s pie!

    it was a major pain in the ass finding ground lamb too. i had to cross the river and go to the lebanese grocer to get it


  11. coldwarrior
    14 | January 17, 2018 4:40 pm

    @ coldwarrior:

    its not nearly scottish enough in this kitchen


  12. coldwarrior
    15 | January 17, 2018 4:41 pm

    thats better


  13. RIX
    16 | January 17, 2018 5:11 pm

    Greetings and salutations. I just read Eagles comment about the Corey Booker hysterical tirade.
    Yup, if that was any Republican treating a Dem female, especially a black female that way it would be torches and
    pitchforks time. I didn’t actually see it until I got to the hotel last night. The visuals were actually even worse
    than the audio, That woman should not have had to endure that totally insane, disrespectful rant.
    Booker rehearsed that to rally the base for his presidential run.
    “I cried tears of anger”? Why are Democrat men always crying?


  14. coldwarrior
    17 | January 17, 2018 5:18 pm

    RIX wrote:

    “I cried tears of anger”? Why are Democrat men always crying?

    because they are castrated betas

    he just ruined his chances at higher office. there are many, many ads to be made just from THAT tirade alone!


  15. RIX
    18 | January 17, 2018 5:37 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    RIX wrote:

    “I cried tears of anger”? Why are Democrat men always crying?

    because they are castrated betas

    he just ruined his chances at higher office. there are many, many ads to be made just from THAT tirade alone!

    I think that you got it. Booker will not be president, and that of course will be because everybody is racist,
    no exceptions.


  16. coldwarrior
    19 | January 17, 2018 5:58 pm

    @ RIX:

    the days of Reagan/O’Neil are long gone. we are at war. the dems know this, the gop is ignorant to this fact. many of us are awake now tho.


  17. coldwarrior
    20 | January 17, 2018 6:14 pm

    ok, i just got done wathcing a my little ponies episode with the girls, i usually read or study while this happens…not this time.

    the episode was very interesting. the ponies go to a village where everyone is forced to be equal and think and act exactly the same. no original thought or ideas or individual skill/talent is allowed and everyone is forced to be happy.

    the writers of the show then proceed to eviscerate this village and its inhabitants and its leader. the ponies are appalled by the village and the goings on there. the town is more or less presented as one of the classic ‘communist paradises’ or like a cult.

    this was rather refreshing.


  18. 21 | January 17, 2018 6:42 pm

    @ coldwarrior:
    My Little Ponies will be called racist, sexist, bigoted…


  19. coldwarrior
    22 | January 17, 2018 6:43 pm

    right_wing2 wrote:

    @ coldwarrior:
    My Little Ponies will be called racist, sexist, bigoted…

    clearly.


  20. coldwarrior
    23 | January 17, 2018 6:51 pm

    its about time that these ass-hats got sued’

    http://www.wsaz.com/content/news/Cities-join-together-in-lawsuit-against-JCAHO-454786773.html


  21. eaglesoars
    24 | January 17, 2018 6:57 pm

    I’m betting NY and CONN see some population increase

    Incoming New Jersey Governor Wants to Create an Entire Agency to Protect Illegal Immigrants

    http://dailysignal.com/2018/01/16/incoming-new-jersey-governor-wants-to-create-an-entire-agency-to-protect-illegal-immigrants/

    Our Dem governor – can’t even remember the dork’s name – is finding out it ain’t as easy as it looks. He introduced a bunch of gun control measures and got laughed at. Your office is in the capitol of The Confederacy, dumb ass, people here don’t give up their guns


  22. RIX
    25 | January 17, 2018 7:11 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    @ RIX:

    the days of Reagan/O’Neil are long gone. we are at war. the dems know this, the gop is ignorant to this fact. many of us are awake now tho.

    Yup, the Dems are hyper-partisan now. They favor non-citizens over their own constituents.
    People like Kate Steinly seem to be acceptable collateral damage in their quest to create new Democrats.


  23. Deplorable Martian Overlord
    26 | January 17, 2018 7:41 pm

    http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/01/16/goldstein-investigation-10-million-lapd-electric-bmws-appear-unused-misused/

    From April 2016 when the project started through August 2017, we found most of the electric cars have only been used for a few thousand miles.

    And a handful are sitting in the garage with only a few hundred on them.

    Like this one in service since may 27, 2016, with just 400 miles on it!

    That’s an average use of 6 miles a week!

    With the monthly lease payment of a little more than $418, this one costs taxpayers over $15 a mile to use!


  24. Deplorable Martian Overlord
    27 | January 17, 2018 7:54 pm

    RIX wrote:

    coldwarrior wrote:

    @ RIX:

    the days of Reagan/O’Neil are long gone. we are at war. the dems know this, the gop is ignorant to this fact. many of us are awake now tho.

    Yup, the Dems are hyper-partisan now. They favor non-citizens over their own constituents.
    People like Kate Steinly seem to be acceptable collateral damage in their quest to create new Democrats.

    Did you see the leaked report where they flat out admitted that? Interesting read, I wonder what other sleazy things they send each other when they think they’re safe.


  25. lobo91
    28 | January 17, 2018 7:56 pm

    WWII Vet Bob Dole Is Wheelchair Bound — But That Didn’t Stop Him When The Anthem Played

    Bob Dole was honored at the US Capitol today, and he sent the NFL a message.

    The World War II veteran, Senator and former presidential candidate received the Congressional Gold Medal in a ceremony that included Republican and Democrat leadership, the President and the Vice President.

    The former Kansas Senator was honored for being particularly instrumental in the commissioning of the World War II Veterans Memorial.


  26. eaglesoars
    29 | January 17, 2018 8:01 pm

    Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:

    Did you see the leaked report where they flat out admitted that?

    No! And I don’t miss much. Where is it?

    I’m at my wits end. Our accountant told us the new tax plan is going to cost us an extra 30 grand. ??????? No matter how I work those numbers, we still come out ahead. I’m at a total loss, my husband is ready to put his fist thru a wall.

    *thud*


  27. eaglesoars
    30 | January 17, 2018 8:02 pm

    And when do Trump’s fake news awards come out? I thought that was today


  28. lobo91
    31 | January 17, 2018 8:05 pm

    @ Deplorable Martian Overlord:

    You mean this?


  29. Deplorable Bumr50
    32 | January 17, 2018 8:13 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    It’s on his twitter timeline, but I can’t get it to load on any browser.


  30. coldwarrior
    34 | January 17, 2018 8:19 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Our accountant told us the new tax plan is going to cost us an extra 30 grand.

    huh???

    that makes ZERO sense.


  31. Deplorable Bumr50
    35 | January 17, 2018 8:22 pm

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:

    OK, apparently NO ONE can get it to load.

    First amendement, anyone?


  32. eaglesoars
    36 | January 17, 2018 8:22 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    that makes ZERO sense.

    thank you.

    OTOH, sometimes my hubby decides the world is coming to an end and will hear things that were never said. He has what I call ‘flash depression syndrome’ that requires – and receives – an ass kicking


  33. eaglesoars
    38 | January 17, 2018 8:26 pm

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:

    OK, apparently NO ONE can get it to load.

    First amendement, anyone?

    it’s timing out, but Ed Henry at fox just ran down the list – which I missed because I had to pay attention to something else

    Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:
    @ lobo91:
    Nope, this memo.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/10/dreamers-critical-to-dems-electoral-success-palmieri-memo-says.html

    lobo91 wrote:

    @ Deplorable Martian Overlord:

    You mean this?

    You have to read Sharyll Attkinnson’s book Smear. She’s got the goods on EVERYBODY. The shareblue stuff is in there and lots more. One thing I didn’t know is that our Federal gov’t hires people to create fake accts on social media to sway opinions. It’s ok when they do it, but when the Russians do it, well…special prosecutor time


  34. coldwarrior
    39 | January 17, 2018 8:26 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    thank you.

    OTOH, sometimes my hubby decides the world is coming to an end and will hear things that were never said. He has what I call ‘flash depression syndrome’ that requires – and receives – an ass kicking

    seriously. i cant even figure out how that could be possible.


  35. Deplorable Bumr50
    40 | January 17, 2018 8:26 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    OH, OK!!

    If you go to NYT and WaPo they have pieces TRASHING the Fake News Awards and bringing up “ethics violations” on the part of the WH.

    It’s hosted on GOP.com, so either the useless GOP traitors shut it down in a fit of pearl-clutching or the Masters of the Internet have deemed it not appropriate for the masses.

    Again, First Amendment, anyone…??


  36. Deplorable Bumr50
    41 | January 17, 2018 8:29 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    Oh!

    So it broke the internet…


  37. coldwarrior
    42 | January 17, 2018 8:30 pm

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:

    Oh!

    So it broke the internet…

    BLAME TRUMP!!!!!


  38. eaglesoars
    43 | January 17, 2018 8:32 pm

    ok, everybody on twitter is saying the Fake News link crashed – too much traffic


  39. Deplorable Bumr50
    44 | January 17, 2018 8:34 pm

    Jerusalem Post Columnist Caroline Glick Joins Breitbart News

    http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/01/17/jerusalem-post-columnist-caroline-glick-joins-breitbart-news/

    There is at least one peep that used to haunt these parts who’s head just blew into a million pieces, if it hasn’t already happened.


  40. coldwarrior
    45 | January 17, 2018 8:35 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    ok, everybody on twitter is saying the Fake News link crashed – too much traffic

    😆

    yeah, right…so his numbers stink and he is unpopular???

    he broke the internet!


  41. coldwarrior
    46 | January 17, 2018 8:36 pm

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    Jerusalem Post Columnist Caroline Glick Joins Breitbart News

    http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/01/17/jerusalem-post-columnist-caroline-glick-joins-breitbart-news/

    There is at least one peep that used to haunt these parts who’s head just blew into a million pieces, if it hasn’t already happened.

    BWAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!! *CHOKE* HAHAHAHAHHAAAAA!!!!!!


  42. eaglesoars
    47 | January 17, 2018 8:37 pm

    #1 goes to Paul Krugman predicting the markets would crash and never recover; DOW hits record high


  43. eaglesoars
    48 | January 17, 2018 8:38 pm

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    There is at least one peep that used to haunt these parts who’s head just blew into a million pieces, if it hasn’t already happened.

    oh dear. I haven’t even seen him on zip lately.


  44. coldwarrior
    49 | January 17, 2018 8:43 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    #1 goes to Paul Krugman predicting the markets would crash and never recover; DOW hits record high

    that’s NOBEL laureate and Professor Paul Krugman to you, plebe.


  45. RIX
  46. eaglesoars
    51 | January 17, 2018 8:46 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    he broke the internet!

    infowars has it

    #2 Brian Ross fucks up a report on Trump/Russia, crashing the markets

    #3 CNN botches dates, reports Trump and Jr. had access to Wikileaks

    #4 Reports Trump removed bust of MLK from the Oval

    #5 WaPo falsely reports Pensacola rally is empty

    #6 – oh yeah, the fish in Japan

    #7 – CNN reports Scaramucchi met w/Russians

    #8 – Newsweek falsely reports Polish First Lady didn’t shake Trump’s hand

    #9 – CNN falsely reports that Comey would dispute Trump’s claim he was not under investigation

    #10 – NYT front page reports Trump admin hid climate report

    GRAND PRIZE – Russia collusion hoax


  47. eaglesoars
    52 | January 17, 2018 8:51 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    that’s NOBEL laureate and Professor Paul Krugman to you, plebe.

    There IS no Nobel for economics, plebe. It’s an ego stroke given out by Swedish Central Bank at the same time, covering as another ‘Nobel’. Its name is “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel” and it wasn’t around until 1969.


  48. AZfederalist
    54 | January 17, 2018 8:55 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    because they are castrated betas

    he just ruined his chances at higher office. there are many, many ads to be made just from THAT tirade alone!

    The Stupid Party would fail to take advantage of the opportunity and would not run such ads. However, Donald Trump, while a part of the Stupid Party, is not of the Stupid Party and he will run ads based upon that kind of thing.


  49. coldwarrior
    55 | January 17, 2018 8:55 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    There IS no Nobel for economics, plebe. It’s an ego stroke given out by Swedish Central Bank at the same time, covering as another ‘Nobel’. Its name is “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel” and it wasn’t around until 1969.

    😆

    i knew someone would get it!


  50. coldwarrior
    56 | January 17, 2018 8:56 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    when he won that award he was very very good. i will give him that

    then his ego took over.


  51. coldwarrior
    57 | January 17, 2018 8:57 pm

    AZfederalist wrote:

    -67C, only 12C from the temperature of dry ice.

    wow!


  52. Deplorable Bumr50
    58 | January 17, 2018 8:58 pm

    @ AZfederalist:

    Yakutia.

    That’s where the huskies with the alien DNA are?


  53. coldwarrior
    59 | January 17, 2018 8:59 pm

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    @ AZfederalist:

    Yakutia.

    That’s where the huskies with the alien DNA are?

    i’m sorry, what?


  54. Deplorable Bumr50
    60 | January 17, 2018 9:01 pm

    @ coldwarrior:

    It was an absolutely geographically wrong reference to ‘The Thing.’


  55. coldwarrior
    61 | January 17, 2018 9:01 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    #2 Brian Ross fucks up a report on Trump/Russia, crashing the markets

    i’m afraid i missed that one…musta been on extended night shift


  56. eaglesoars
    62 | January 17, 2018 9:03 pm

    oh, lookie here! China downgraded us!

    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/sovereign-debt-crisis/china-credit-rating-agency-downgrade-usa/

    because of Trump’s tax reform.

    Is Krugman doing their books?


  57. coldwarrior
    63 | January 17, 2018 9:04 pm

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    @ coldwarrior:

    It was an absolutely geographically wrong reference to ‘The Thing.’

    oh. ok.


  58. coldwarrior
    64 | January 17, 2018 9:05 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    oh, lookie here! China downgraded us!

    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/sovereign-debt-crisis/china-credit-rating-agency-downgrade-usa/

    🙂

    who? they have a credit rating agency????

    that’s laughable!


  59. eaglesoars
    65 | January 17, 2018 9:06 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    eaglesoars wrote:

    #2 Brian Ross fucks up a report on Trump/Russia, crashing the markets

    i’m afraid i missed that one…musta been on extended night shift

    said Flynn was going to testify that Trump ordered him to contact the Russians during the campaign

    Ross was suspended and really hasn’t been on the air since then. ABC is letting his contract run out


  60. eaglesoars
    66 | January 17, 2018 9:06 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    who? they have a credit rating agency????

    I’m sure they have several, depending on who they’re rating 😉


  61. eaglesoars
    67 | January 17, 2018 9:10 pm

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    That’s where the huskies with the alien DNA are?

    wut?


  62. eaglesoars
    68 | January 17, 2018 9:11 pm

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    @ coldwarrior:

    It was an absolutely geographically wrong reference to ‘The Thing.’

    never mind


  63. coldwarrior
    69 | January 17, 2018 9:21 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    said Flynn was going to testify that Trump ordered him to contact the Russians during the campaign

    Ross was suspended and really hasn’t been on the air since then. ABC is letting his contract run out

    yep, musta slept through that one!


  64. Aussie Infidel
    71 | January 17, 2018 10:07 pm

    @ coldwarrior:
    Never again be late for work due to the deep snow and ice.

    You REALLY need a Whipsaw mate!

    🙂

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-9uzLBtMtY


  65. Aussie Infidel
    72 | January 17, 2018 10:12 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    AZfederalist wrote:

    -67C, only 12C from the temperature of dry ice.

    wow!

    WOW ! Indeed.

    Just 12 degrees more and you’ll be able to pick up all that CO2 that has fallen out of the air and stack it in your woodshed to use as plant food next summer.

    🙂


  66. 73 | January 17, 2018 10:23 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    coldwarrior wrote:

    AZfederalist wrote:

    -67C, only 12C from the temperature of dry ice.

    wow!

    WOW ! Indeed.

    Just 12 degrees more and you’ll be able to pick up all that CO2 that has fallen out of the air and stack it in your woodshed to use as plant food next summer.

    Bah… 12 more degrees and there won’t be a next summer… ever again…


  67. coldwarrior
    74 | January 17, 2018 10:25 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    @ coldwarrior:
    Never again be late for work due to the deep snow and ice.

    You REALLY need a Whipsaw mate!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-9uzLBtMtY

    mrs coldwarrior wants one, badly!


  68. coldwarrior
    75 | January 17, 2018 10:26 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    Just 12 degrees more and you’ll be able to pick up all that CO2 that has fallen out of the air and stack it in your woodshed to use as plant food next summer.

    @ doriangrey:

    someone please explain to me how this is caused by global warming.


  69. eaglesoars
    76 | January 17, 2018 10:35 pm

    If I have 7 guns and the government takes 7 guns, how many guns do I have left?

    https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/953767490412273665

    (it’s a trick question)


  70. coldwarrior
    77 | January 17, 2018 10:37 pm

    my goin’ on extended night shift rotation song:

    enjoy


  71. coldwarrior
    78 | January 17, 2018 10:44 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    its outcomes based math.
    😉


  72. eaglesoars
    79 | January 17, 2018 10:48 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    enjoy

    have a wonderful evening! I’m out, nite


  73. coldwarrior
    80 | January 17, 2018 10:48 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    coldwarrior wrote:

    enjoy

    have a wonderful evening! I’m out, nite

    yinz too!


  74. Deplorable Bumr50
    81 | January 18, 2018 12:36 am

    *sigh*

    So I haven’t been around much.

    Mrs. Bumr50 and I went to the hospital for a routine procedure for abnormal menstrual bleeding. D&C.

    She’s had a polyp before, and we assumed that’s what it was. We were discussing dinner before the procedure.

    The scope revealed abnormally thick tissue hat was the wrong color.

    Talked to both the gynecologist, and a consulting oncologist and the speculation is that it’s either pre-cancerous or cancerous cells in the uterus.

    The likely course of action is a hysterectomy. My wife is 38.

    This has been hard. We don’t have kids.


  75. Aussie Infidel
    82 | January 18, 2018 5:51 am

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:
    Do you have access to egg collection and surrogacy using your and your wife’s genetic material?

    Just promise me that you will use ALL of the fertilised eggs!


  76. 83 | January 18, 2018 7:17 am

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:
    Prayers for you and your wife.


  77. eaglesoars
    84 | January 18, 2018 8:11 am

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    it’s either pre-cancerous or cancerous cells in the uterus.

    ‘pre-cancerous’.

    Sticking my nose where it doesn’t belong but this time I don’t care.

    Bumr, over half the women I know – myself included – have heard the exact same thing and had the D&C. There are A LOT of ‘pre-cancerous’ stages that end up meaning nothing. Have the D&C, they’ll get a better look at the cells and THEN you can decide. The last time I checked, they were attributing this to a form of herpes virus/and-or birth control. It turns out to be no big deal.

    No tears yet, ok? This is more common than you can imagine.


  78. eaglesoars
    85 | January 18, 2018 8:16 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Have the D&C, they’ll get a better look at the cells and THEN you can decide.

    ok, I mis-read, she’s already done that. I’d still get a 2nd opinion. And a 3rd. I’d take that biopsy report and talk to doctors about exactly what pre-cancerous stage (cells are just too large, immature, etc.)


  79. 86 | January 18, 2018 8:36 am

    coldwarrior wrote:

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    Just 12 degrees more and you’ll be able to pick up all that CO2 that has fallen out of the air and stack it in your woodshed to use as plant food next summer.

    @ doriangrey:

    someone please explain to me how this is caused by global warming.

    Ummm… Because you’re a racist homophobic privileged misogynistic truth denying knuckle dragging Nazi supporting Gaia killer, and besides, Shut UP… That’s how.


  80. rain of lead
    87 | January 18, 2018 8:48 am

    morning y’all
    said fuck it and took a snow day
    even if the snow is melting and will be gone by this afternoon


  81. RIX
    88 | January 18, 2018 9:01 am

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:
    Hey Bumr. I feel for you and your wife, my wife went through it.
    Do not be reluctant to get a second, or even third opinion. I did not like the prognosis that my wife got,
    so I scheduled a 2nd opinion. That was 20 years ago and I am looking at her right now. If we stayed with the first
    guy it was going to be bad. The state of the science is so advanced now you can both be optimistic, but take
    control of the situation. Prayers for your wife, you and your family.


  82. eaglesoars
    89 | January 18, 2018 9:51 am

    good god

    Hillary Clinton Could Still Become President If Russia Probe Finds Conspiracy Evidence

    Newsweek today

    http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-president-trump-russia-probe-lawrence-lessig-784081?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social

    These people need medical attention. Even if they don’t believe it. Worse, it’s based on something written by Lawrence Lessig, the biggest fraud at Harvard. And that’s sayin’ something.


  83. Deplorable Bumr50
    90 | January 18, 2018 10:37 am

    @ Aussie Infidel:
    @ right_wing2:
    @ eaglesoars:
    @ RIX:

    Thanks, guys!

    Will definitely be asking lots of questions and getting a second look if it sounds iffy.

    Never heard of “pre-cancerous” before Tuesday.


  84. eaglesoars
    91 | January 18, 2018 12:26 pm

    oh, sweet

    Win for taxpayers as Consumer Protection Bureau chief seeks $0 for agency

    President Trump’s frugal budget director, in his latest bow to taxpayers, is skipping the usual ask for millions of dollars to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau he is temporarily running.

    The reason for Mick Mulvaney’s extraordinary move: The agency has enough money to pay its bills.

    In a letter to Federal Reserve Chair Janet L. Yellen, who funds the special consumer board, Mulvaney simply said, “I have been assured that the funds currently in the bureau fund are sufficient for the bureau to carry out its statutory mandates for the next fiscal quarter while striving to be efficient, effective and accountable.”

    Mulvaney, the acting director of the embattled agency created by President Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, normally would be asking for about $145 million each quarter to turn the lights on.

    But in a deep dive review of the agency that aims to punish financial groups that take advantage of Americans, he discovered that it has $177.1 million on hand.

    “This letter is to inform you,” he wrote to Yellen in the letter obtained by Secrets, “that for the second quarter of fiscal year 2018, the bureau is requesting $0.”

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/win-for-taxpayers-as-consumer-protection-bureau-chief-seeks-0-for-agency/article/2646293

    Once Mulvaney is done, that agency will be but a memory


  85. 92 | January 18, 2018 1:27 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Oh that’ll go over well with the left wing media and the House/Senate members like Fauxahauntas.

    Who cares.


  86. Deplorable Bumr50
    93 | January 18, 2018 5:51 pm

    Huh?

    California AG: Employers who Cooperate With Federal Immigration Raids Will be Prosecuted

    https://ntknetwork.com/california-ag-employers-who-cooperate-with-federal-immigration-raids-will-be-prosecuted/


  87. Deplorable Bumr50
    94 | January 18, 2018 6:31 pm

    My wife’s biopsy and test results came back completely benign.

    Doctor says she’s amazed and never seen what she saw come back negative.

    We are out of the woods!

    Thanks for thoughts and prayers.

    I’m crying again.


  88. eaglesoars
    95 | January 18, 2018 6:36 pm

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    Doctor says she’s amazed and never seen what she saw come back negative.

    pfftt!! good, now have a nice stiff drink.

    this is interesting

    Thursday, January 18, 2018
    BREAKING: Rep. Gaetz Calls on Congress to Release SHOCKING Secret FISA Memo “That Threatens Democracy at Its Core”

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/breaking-rep-gaetz-calls-congress-release-shocking-secret-fisa-memo-threatens-democracy-core-video/


  89. Deplorable Bumr50
    96 | January 18, 2018 6:43 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    this is interesting

    It must be released.

    They can’t lose it to a “technical glitch” like the Lynch-Clinton tarmac meeting.

    Did you hear that?


  90. eaglesoars
    98 | January 18, 2018 6:50 pm

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:

    I had not seen that. Time to start throwing people in jail


  91. 99 | January 18, 2018 7:24 pm

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    Huh?

    California AG: Employers who Cooperate With Federal Immigration Raids Will be Prosecuted

    https://ntknetwork.com/california-ag-employers-who-cooperate-with-federal-immigration-raids-will-be-prosecuted/

    You can pretty much bet that is going to come back and bite the dems ass right off.


  92. eaglesoars
    100 | January 18, 2018 7:29 pm

    @ doriangrey:

    yeah, I don’t think a bunch of animal protein deprived hippies is going to intimidate Ole Jeff.


  93. eaglesoars
    101 | January 18, 2018 7:37 pm

    SCOTUS has stayed the district court order requiring North Carolina to redraw its congressional districts.

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/011818zr1_b97c.pdf


  94. RIX
    102 | January 18, 2018 7:49 pm

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    My wife’s biopsy and test results came back completely benign.

    Doctor says she’s amazed and never seen what she saw come back negative.

    We are out of the woods!

    Thanks for thoughts and prayers.

    I’m crying again.

    Yeah baby, yeah!


  95. eaglesoars
    103 | January 18, 2018 7:58 pm

    Gas prices in parts of New England spiked 400 percent earlier this month when it got really cold. But just those parts that put the kabosh on exploiting Marcellus Shale by adding some new pipelines.

    New Englanders Have Only Themselves to Blame for Energy Price Spikes

    My sympathy meter is pegged at ‘all outta fucks to give’

    https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2018/01/17/new_englanders_have_only_themselves_to_blame_for_energy_price_spikes.html


  96. eaglesoars
    104 | January 18, 2018 8:03 pm

    oh ffs. Simpson testified that the Russians have infiltrated the NRA. to do what? persuade us to give up our guns?

    https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/954113627665190912


  97. eaglesoars
    105 | January 18, 2018 8:05 pm

    WASHINGTON

    The FBI is investigating whether a top Russian banker with ties to the Kremlin illegally funneled money to the National Rifle Association to help Donald Trump win the presidency, two sources familiar with the matter have told McClatchy.

    Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article195231139.html#storylink=cpy


  98. lobo91
    106 | January 18, 2018 8:16 pm

    Chicago Man Files New PAC Called ‘I Am Going to Assassinate President Donald J Trump’
    A Chicago resident on Wednesday filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to create a new political action committee whose name threatens to assassinate President Donald Trump.

    The PAC is titled, “I AM GOING TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP.” (The name is registered in all capital letters.)

    An individual named Freddy Black filed the paperwork and wrote, “Send donations to reward my assassination of Donald J Trump to: Freddy Black, 3001 S King Drive Apt 1118, Chicago IL 60616. Or to my IDOC Parole Agent Mr. Done Let”s get him assassinated in the next 24 hours!! Then I”ll kill all the KKK motherfuckers too [sic].”


  99. RIX
    107 | January 18, 2018 8:23 pm

    https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/01/18/nation-in-crisis-cnn-reports-that-zoos-panda-cam-will-be-turned-off-in-government-shutdown/
    @ Twitchy
    Ok, this is serious. If the government shuts down the national zoo will have to turn off the Panda. Cam!
    Good Lord we are looking at the end of days , or at least pandas not getting good pub.


  100. Deplorable Bumr50
    108 | January 18, 2018 8:26 pm

    @ RIX:

    You just know that’s when they’re gonna hump…


  101. Daffy Duck
    109 | January 18, 2018 8:32 pm

    Tax Cut News: got my first pay stub under the new withholdings. Looks like I’ll be pocketing the equivalent of about 2 extra mortgage payments* this year.

    / *could also be used for booze and hookers, YMMV. 🙂


  102. RIX
    110 | January 18, 2018 8:35 pm

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    @ RIX:

    You just know that’s when they’re gonna hump…

    Oh yeah, panda females are tarts. Common knowledge.


  103. Daffy Duck
    111 | January 18, 2018 8:38 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:

    I had not seen that. Time to start throwing people in jail

    Jail?

    My, you’re feeling quite lenient tonight!


  104. lobo91
    112 | January 18, 2018 8:41 pm

    Daffy Duck wrote:

    Tax Cut News: got my first pay stub under the new withholdings. Looks like I’ll be pocketing the equivalent of about 2 extra mortgage payments* this year.

    / *could also be used for booze and hookers, YMMV.

    I’ll be happy if mine offsets the increase in our health insurance premiums


  105. eaglesoars
    113 | January 18, 2018 8:53 pm

    Daffy Duck wrote:

    My, you’re feeling quite lenient tonight!

    That wasn’t me, I’ve been hacked by the Turkish cyber army.

    Srsly, look at this.

    House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence’s account been suspended
    on twitter

    https://twitter.com/Auburngirlx/status/954167474202841088


  106. Bordm
    114 | January 18, 2018 8:55 pm

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    My wife’s biopsy and test results came back completely benign.

    Doctor says she’s amazed and never seen what she saw come back negative.

    We are out of the woods!

    Thanks for thoughts and prayers.

    I’m crying again.

    Wonderful news!


  107. rain of lead
    115 | January 18, 2018 9:18 pm

    huh at the start of the year, the girl, 9th grader, takes a psat
    scores 1140

    now she has three colleges sending her emails with “hey, how YOU doing”


  108. AZfederalist
    116 | January 18, 2018 9:33 pm

    rain of lead wrote:

    now she has three colleges sending her emails with “hey, how YOU doing”

    Yep, that’s how it works. Good for her!


  109. rain of lead
    117 | January 18, 2018 9:39 pm

    @ AZfederalist:

    heh
    I just laughed at her and said the pressure is on her to keep her grades up because the only way she is going to college is to scholarship her way in


  110. Daffy Duck
    118 | January 18, 2018 9:44 pm

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:

    Awesome news


  111. Daffy Duck
    119 | January 18, 2018 9:56 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    Isn’t / hasn’t Twitter been accused of “shadow banning?”

    I don’t have it…


  112. eaglesoars
    120 | January 18, 2018 10:02 pm

    @ rain of lead:

    that is so great!

    Daffy Duck wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:

    Isn’t / hasn’t Twitter been accused of “shadow banning?”

    I don’t have it…

    yes, but that’s not what this is, this is outright suspension for violation of TOS


  113. 121 | January 18, 2018 10:20 pm

    Wikileaks has offered a million dollars for the 4 page House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee memo on the FISA FBI/DOJ abuse.

    https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/954185054430924801


  114. eaglesoars
    122 | January 18, 2018 10:46 pm

    @ doriangrey:

    Gaetz should pull a Feinstein, say he has a cold, sneezed and hit ‘send’ by mistake

    Laura Ingraham said her sources told her this goes straight to Mueller


  115. eaglesoars
    123 | January 18, 2018 10:50 pm

    From Steve King, Congessman from Iowa

    I have read the memo. The sickening reality has set in. I no longer hold out hope there is an innocent explanation for the information the public has seen. I have long said it is worse than Watergate. It was #neverTrump & #alwaysHillary. #releasethememo
    https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/954194729511636992


  116. Daffy Duck
    124 | January 18, 2018 11:19 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Daffy Duck wrote:

    My, you’re feeling quite lenient tonight!

    That wasn’t me, I’ve been hacked by the Turkish cyber army.

    Srsly, look at this.

    House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence’s account been suspended
    on twitter

    https://twitter.com/Auburngirlx/status/954167474202841088

    I clicked that moments after you posted, and there was a “message.”

    Now, total blank.

    I was gonna sell some guns this weekend.

    Guess I’m standing pat…


  117. eaglesoars
    125 | January 18, 2018 11:25 pm

    A new low in the annals of fake news

    At least seven members of a cable television crew were arrested after they tried to sneak a fake explosive device through a security checkpoint at Newark Liberty International Airport, the Transportation Security Administration said Thursday.

    A law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation said that the team was filming for cable network CNBC,

    http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/01/cnbc_crew_with_fake_bomb_arrested_at_newark_airport_source.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter


  118. eaglesoars
    126 | January 18, 2018 11:28 pm

    Daffy Duck wrote:

    I was gonna sell some guns this weekend.

    twitter is NOTHING but ‘#ReleasetheMemo, even members of Congress are doing it.

    twitter might want to reconsider its business model. Gab is still around and all that needs to be done is for Trump to say he’ll be posting there instead


  119. eaglesoars
    127 | January 18, 2018 11:34 pm

    @ Daffy Duck:

    And when this is all over, I’m finally going to understand what Mike Flynn has to do with all this. The story we’re being fed about him doesn’t add up either


  120. eaglesoars
    128 | January 18, 2018 11:42 pm

    Rep Matt Gaetz:

    “I think that this will not end just with firings. I believe there are people who will go to jail. You don’t get to try to undermine our country, undermine our elections and then simply get fired.” #ReleaseTheMemo #ReleaseTheDocuments

    https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/954209261529178112


  121. eaglesoars
    129 | January 18, 2018 11:51 pm

    ok, it looks like things have gone quiet for the nite, so I’m turning in. later, sleep tight


  122. 130 | January 18, 2018 11:57 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    But we know that Trump colluded with the Russians to steal the election from Saint Hillary the Pure.
    ///


  123. Daffy Duck
    131 | January 18, 2018 11:58 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    I was replying. NSA dint lak my ty-ping.

    Page reloaded, post lost to posterity.

    The fuckery, it burns.

    (Page tried to reload again..)


  124. Daffy Duck
    132 | January 19, 2018 1:51 am

    @ eaglesoars:

    For me (and I only speak for myself), gallows, or bust.

    Prison
    Censure
    Loss of fake news hosting…

    Absolute fuckery.

    Sic semper tyrannis, or however you spell it.

    This is how it’s done here: Molon Labe.

    “Waves to Iron Fist, up there..”


  125. coldwarrior
    134 | January 19, 2018 7:46 am

    Daffy Duck wrote:

    Tax Cut News: got my first pay stub under the new withholdings. Looks like I’ll be pocketing the equivalent of about 2 extra mortgage payments* this year.

    / *could also be used for booze and hookers, YMMV.

    BOOZE AND HOOKERS!

    throw some strippers in too!

    😆


  126. coldwarrior
    135 | January 19, 2018 7:46 am

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    My wife’s biopsy and test results came back completely benign.

    HOOOORAYYY!!!!


  127. eaglesoars
    136 | January 19, 2018 8:11 am

    rain of lead wrote:

    morning y’all
    #releasethememo

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/19/the-evidence-inside-the-house-intel-committee-four-page-fisa-memo/

    …and not a Russian in sight

    the most astonishing – to me – is the tidbit about Mary Jacoby. All the way back to the Rose Law Firm.


  128. coldwarrior
    137 | January 19, 2018 8:37 am

    @ eaglesoars:
    this is ugly.

    gotta go read then sleep


  129. eaglesoars
    138 | January 19, 2018 8:42 am

    coldwarrior wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:
    this is ugly.

    gotta go read then sleep

    not really. ugly would be if we lived in a country where this had no chance of seeing the light of day

    sleep well


  130. eaglesoars
    139 | January 19, 2018 8:45 am

    @ eaglesoars:

    what’s going to be really beautiful is the utter humiliation of the Obama sycophants, so many of whom strutted their holier-than-thou egos across the world stage

    Hi, Bono


  131. RIX
    140 | January 19, 2018 9:20 am

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/report-democrats-worry-wealthy-people-flee-california-high-taxes/
    @ Gateway Pundit
    Good morning fun seekers. People with money are fleeing California because of high state taxes.
    Whodathunk? People resist unreasonable taxes! Apparently Jerry Brown did not study economics
    in seminary. I would also suggest that another reason is that California is morphing into a 3rd world
    shi#thole


  132. eaglesoars
    141 | January 19, 2018 9:45 am

    @ RIX:

    when is the next census? I wonder if there’s been – or will be – enough outflow to lose them some electoral votes.


  133. 142 | January 19, 2018 11:01 am

    coldwarrior wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:
    this is ugly.

    gotta go read then sleep

    https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/954378835184594945


  134. 143 | January 19, 2018 11:03 am

    I find it delicious that the release of that movie “The Post”, which is purportedly to show the importance of a free press, is about to blow up in their faces. Because unless CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, and MSNBC start pressing the House to #ReleaseTheMemo, that whole concept of the “Public’s Right to Know” is going to be shown as the partisan BS we always knew it was when it came to Democrats.*

    *The whole release of the Pentagon Papers was done during the NIXON administration, who of course had nothing to do with the material described therein, but if you mention it, people STILL think it exposed Nixon’s waging of the Viet Nam War, rather than Kennedy’s and LBJ’s.


  135. 144 | January 19, 2018 1:31 pm

    OUCH… This could leave a bruise.

    https://twitter.com/Jules67269/status/954179472793718784


  136. 146 | January 19, 2018 2:26 pm

    @ doriangrey:

    I had never noticed that, but it sure does look like it from the position of her hands. And I’m sorry – that is NOT dehydration. That’s an effing SEIZURE.


  137. 147 | January 19, 2018 2:32 pm

    Deplorable Barbarian wrote:

    @ doriangrey:

    I had never noticed that, but it sure does look like it from the position of her hands. And I’m sorry – that is NOT dehydration. That’s an effing SEIZURE.

    A seizure? Or someone with their hands cuffed behind their back attempting “pitifully” to resist arrest? Yea, I always thought it was a seizure as well, but now that attention has been brought to her hands being cuffed, resisting arrest seems far more probable.


  138. eaglesoars
    148 | January 19, 2018 3:09 pm

    BREAKING: Federal prosecutors have notified the court that they intend to retry Sen. Robert Menendez on bribery and corruption charges and have requested the earliest possible retrial date.

    https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/954438879465103360

    get a better jury this time guys


  139. eaglesoars
    149 | January 19, 2018 3:21 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ RIX:

    when is the next census? I wonder if there’s been – or will be – enough outflow to lose them some electoral votes.

    oh look!

    somebody asked the same question. Big loser: Illinois

    https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/286403/


  140. 150 | January 19, 2018 4:39 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    I think, though, that the census won’t be completed and the district realignment tallied until AFTER the 2020 election, unfortunately.
    Of course, since TRUMP will be conducting the Census, I wonder whether he can instruct the Commerce Department that ILLEGALS are not to be counted.
    BIG loser – California.


  141. Aussie Infidel
    151 | January 19, 2018 4:48 pm

    About 10 minutes to lift off from Rocket Labs live launch

    Enjoy

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11978105

    Second orbital test named

    “It’s still a test’

    🙂

    but with 4 satellites aboard. The sat owners were so satisfied that they risked their sats on a test launch.


  142. 152 | January 19, 2018 4:54 pm

    Deplorable Barbarian wrote:

    BIG loser – California.

    Big loser=California DEMOCRATS… Big winner=CALIFORNIA CITIZENS.


  143. eaglesoars
    153 | January 19, 2018 4:59 pm

    Deplorable Barbarian wrote:

    Commerce Department that ILLEGALS are not to be counted.

    I thought there was a court ruling on that that said they can be counted? Smithsonian attic memory again, who knows?

    Hey, look what I just downloaded?

    Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice

    by Sidney Powell

    I just heard her interviewed on Larry O’Conner. She goes over Wiessmann w/a steamroller in this book. I’d forgotten about the interviews I’d seen with her, so this time I got the book ASAP

    https://www.amazon.com/Licensed-Lie-Exposing-Corruption-Department-ebook/dp/B00KQ5EDA2/ref=sr_1_1_twi_kin_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1516398853&sr=1-1&keywords=licensed+to+lie+by+sidney+powell


  144. Aussie Infidel
    154 | January 19, 2018 5:03 pm

    The #StillTesting launch window opens today! We’re currently targeting no earlier than 14:30 NZDT (17:30 PT/ 20:30 ET / 1:30 UTC). Launch preparations are underway at Launch Complex-1 on the Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. Updates to come.


  145. eaglesoars
    155 | January 19, 2018 5:24 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    what is Rocket Labs?


  146. Aussie Infidel
    156 | January 19, 2018 5:46 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    what is Rocket Labs?

    Rocketlabs is a Kiwi orbital launch company that has now amalgamated in the US as Rocketlabusa to gain access to US finance and customers who now include NASA and up to 40 other universities and companies looking to put their satellites into orbit at 95% less than a nominal launch platform.

    The Kiwis have used their materials technology gained in racing yacht building and materials tech to build lightweight but very strong spacelaunch vehicles and have married those systems to an ‘electric’ powered rocket engine named the Ruterford engine. The engines only stand a metre high and have no heavy pumps and gas generating turbo power generators. The energy to directly drive the fuel and oxidiser pumps comes from battery powered pumps.

    Batteries have become sufficiently energy dense to allow this innovation. The whole rocket system costs just $5 million a shot and Rocketlabs have specialised in nano satellites beginning with a 4 inch cubesat that costs just $50k to get into orbit. The cubists are stackable up to 250 Kg and Rocketlabs figure on launching 3 rockets a week from the the Mahia Peninsula. The have 40 customers and about 70 launches planned. Nominally once they catch up with scheduled launch planning a company can go from satellite delivery for platform integration to space in 12 weeks rather than the 2 years it currently takes. One of Rocketlabs next tasks is to soft land a probe on the Moon sometime this year for a US customer for around $6 million.


  147. eaglesoars
    157 | January 19, 2018 5:49 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    I thought there was a court ruling on that that said they can be counted? Smithsonian attic memory again, who knows?

    hmmmm….

    California Democrats Fear Losing Congressional Seat Over Census Proposal To Only Count Americans

    California Dem’s new-found fear is only exasperated by President Trump’s hardline stance on illegal immigration. The current Department of Justice sent a letter in December to the Census Bureau requesting that the citizenship question that was eliminated under the Obama administration be reinstated.

    https://www.weaselzippers.us/371679-california-democrats-fear-losing-congressional-seat-over-census-proposal-to-only-count-americans/

    as an aside, it seems the English language is not well understood. Or the editor sucked. It’s not ‘exasperated’, doofus, it’s ‘exacerbated’


  148. eaglesoars
    158 | January 19, 2018 5:51 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    well, that is VERY cool! Well done!


  149. Aussie Infidel
    159 | January 19, 2018 6:03 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    I know Peter Beck the CEO of Rocketlans reasonably well. I introduced him to the chief engineer of Israeli Aerospace Industries when she was in NZ talking to the RNZ Navy about replacement missiles for the frigates.Her RNZN minder and two NZ government officials came along for the ride across the harbour to Rocketlabs offices and treating labs on the city side of the harbour. The Israeli chief rocket engineer was trying to sell Rocketlabs a first stage booster. What we didn’t know at that stage was that Rocketlabs were already 3D printing Ruterford thrust chambers out of titanium. The first stage Electron booster took 9 Ruterfords for the first stage and a single Ruterford configured for in vacuum flight for the second stage to orbit.

    I’d heard Pete’s schtick many times so I was watching the Chief of the IAI Rocket facility for her reactions. She started off laid back and with a rather ho-hum attitude as these mere ‘amateurs’ gave their presentation. 30 minutes later she was leaning over the table mumbling ” I can’t believe it … I can’t believe it”. Especially so when Pete admitted that all of the electronic control systems had been developed in-house.

    The fact that Rocketlabs has been 3 D printing in titanium since 2012 really shocked her.

    Rocketlabs is a disruptive tech firm and they have chosen a narrow niche of inexpensive high tech nano-satellites and anyone can afford.As sat-tech reduces in size and integration increases that niche will expand. I knew Pete was onto something when DARPA and the US Navy came to NZ to watch Rocketlabs demonstrate a new variant of a Sidewinder short range AA missile that Rocketlabs has used as a testbed for their rocket fuels chemistry research.


  150. Deplorable Bumr50
    160 | January 19, 2018 6:06 pm

    They opened a new Wahlburgers near me, and the wife wanted to try it.

    She’s a bit laid up, so I wanted to place a to go order after my stop at the bank.

    The girl who answered promptly and politely informed me that “We’re not set up to take phone orders yet, but you can come in and we’ll put the order in for takeout.”

    I was literally speechless.

    I almost offered to stop at the Dollar Tree in the plaza I was at and pick up up some pens and paper for them.

    “There. You’re set up for a phone order.”

    Or,

    “Pretend I’m a table.”

    Pro-tip, when you’re opening a new restaurant, NEVER turn down money!


  151. eaglesoars
    161 | January 19, 2018 6:20 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    um, do they trade publicly? I might have some lose change around….


  152. Aussie Infidel
    162 | January 19, 2018 6:47 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Currently they have a few major funders from Silicon Valley , the US Navy, DARPA, the NZ Government, NASA, and the NZ Government. xxxxThey intend to ‘go public’ so keep your eyes open.

    The strategy behind the whole Rocketlabs premise is the rise and rise of the era of the cubist

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BGXRGoEnAc

    Well that plus the materials technologies that the Kiwi’s have in manufacturing carbon fibre structures that can cunningly resist cryogenic temperatures through cunning epoxy formulations allowing cryogenic tanks to be spin for O2 oxidiser. That and the ability to 3D print most of the components for the Ruterford engine seriously reducing the cost of engines. Finally the electro-tech that maximises the energy density in batteries that directly power the pumps that move both oxidiser and fuel without all of the weight and complexity of turbo pumps and plumbing. Those three technologies all came together to allow Rocketlabs to offer orbit to the fast developing cube-sat technologies at just the right time and open up space to anyone with $50k to spare.


  153. eaglesoars
    163 | January 19, 2018 6:56 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    So..do you think maybe Elon Musk wants to slit his wrists? Think Happy Thoughts!


  154. Aussie Infidel
    164 | January 19, 2018 6:57 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    That and reducing the cost to orbit by 95% !

    Might have something to do with their success as well.

    Finally the choice of the Mahia Peninsular as their launch site with virtually no traffic in the lower Southern Hemisphere makes NZ the ideal launch site.

    Rocketlabs choose a Canadian company as their launch providers at the NZ site. It was a screw up by the Canadians who lost contact at the Auckland based mission control site just as orbit was about to be attained. The Kiwi comms at Mahia still had the ‘bird’ but the protocol said that abort was called for so the engine was shut down as a precaution and the rocket de-orbited and burned up on reentry. There were supposed to be three tests but that was reduced to two as the Kiwis had 50 ,000 channels of information on the first flight and they has so much data that the last test was scrubbed as unnecessary. So we await that #2 called’ Still a Test’ but the customers were so assured by the data from Test #1 that they will risk an Earth Observation satellite as well as two Ship Control satellites on this Test flight. Last check was for a blast off sometime after 1430 local time. There is a 9 day window to launch with about daily windows of 4 hours a day available.


  155. Aussie Infidel
    165 | January 19, 2018 7:02 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    So..do you think maybe Elon Musk wants to slit his wrists? Think Happy Thoughts!

    One can only hope!

    🙂

    I also think the BLACK carbon fibre rockets are Kiwi Cool!


  156. Aussie Infidel
    166 | January 19, 2018 7:13 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    It’s currently T-78 minutes and so fat everything is looking good for GO at 1430 NZ Summer time

    🙂

    Go you good thing!


  157. Aussie Infidel
    167 | January 19, 2018 7:15 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Here is the site where you can watch the launch live in about 73 minutes

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K9PVmjjI_c


  158. eaglesoars
    168 | January 19, 2018 7:16 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    I also think the BLACK carbon fibre rockets are Kiwi Cool!

    above my pay grade, I’m afraid


  159. eaglesoars
    169 | January 19, 2018 7:38 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:
    Here is the site where you can watch the launch live in about 73 minutes

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K9PVmjjI_c

    excellent thx!


  160. 170 | January 19, 2018 7:58 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    I seem to recall that the GOP or some conservative group went to court for a ruling that illegals should not be counted in the census, and of course what Bammy wanted, Bammy got.

    Considering that California has gone batsh*t crazy lately, and I DO mean completely off the rails (there are 27 lawsuits they’ve filed against Trump on everything from immigration to climate change) with their sanctuary city policy to their threat to prosecute employers and citizens who comply with federal law re reporting of illegals, that they are most DEFINITELY scared about the possibility that those 3 million so-called “citizens” won’t be contributing to their total Congressional count. And it’s no joke that people are leaving. Businesses are pulling up stakes and moving to Texas, Nevada, Idaho, anywhere to get away from the oppressive Democrat tax scheme. Look at Apple. They are building this incredible manufacturing plant and campus and all they will say is that it will NOT be in California. Rumor has it they’re going to Wisconsin. Which is, as I recall, a “right to work” state – which California is not.


  161. 171 | January 19, 2018 8:02 pm

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:

    I’d be curious how the Wahlburger stacks up. I rather like their family show on A&E, as I believe both Donny and Mark are somewhat conservative. The Mom is a hoot. But I’ve never met anyone who actually has eaten at one.


  162. eaglesoars
    172 | January 19, 2018 8:06 pm

    Deplorable Barbarian wrote:

    Rumor has it they’re going to Wisconsin. Which is, as I recall, a “right to work” state – which California is not.

    So is Virginia and I know Fairfax County is lying (laying?) back and spreading the gov’t legs to entice them here.

    In terms of tax revenue, it would be great. But housing prices here are expensive enough and traffic is already a nightmare. But the weather is lots better and it is beautiful here.


  163. eaglesoars
    173 | January 19, 2018 8:38 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    Here is the site where you can watch the launch live in about 73 minutes

    why does this say Jan 12?


  164. eaglesoars
    174 | January 19, 2018 8:42 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    why does this say Jan 12?

    DEC 12


  165. 175 | January 19, 2018 8:46 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    You are on the wrong page? I have the one that says Jan 19, unfortunately no action yet. Just a logo screen at the moment.


  166. 176 | January 19, 2018 8:52 pm

    @ PaladinPhil:
    Now pushed back to 2130 EST….


  167. Aussie Infidel
    177 | January 19, 2018 9:45 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    eaglesoars wrote:

    why does this say Jan 12?

    DEC 12

    That was the scrubbed flight at T-2 seconds when O2 pressure was just outside nominal pressures. After all it is a test!

    🙂

    Here is the current live site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K9PVmjjI_c

    They are now going for about a 5PM launch as the wind is expected to calm as the afternoon wears on. 5PM is the nominal end of today’s launch window. My guess is that they will probably scrub it today and go for tomorrow’s 5 hour launch window.


  168. eaglesoars
    178 | January 19, 2018 9:46 pm

    PaladinPhil wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:
    You are on the wrong page? I have the one that says Jan 19, unfortunately no action yet. Just a logo screen at the moment.

    dunno – now it says jan 19 launch at 9:39

    But it’s 3:45 pm on Jan 20 in Auckland, so that launch isn’t live


  169. eaglesoars
    179 | January 19, 2018 9:47 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    They are now going for about a 5PM launch a

    the date/time stamp on the screen must be incorrect – it says Jan 19 9:36 pm


  170. 180 | January 19, 2018 9:50 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Time stamp is your/our current time zone. Description gives time stamps for various zones.


  171. 181 | January 19, 2018 9:52 pm

    And they are live. Waiting for something on the screen now besides logo.


  172. Aussie Infidel
    182 | January 19, 2018 10:12 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    They are now going for about a 5PM launch a

    the date/time stamp on the screen must be incorrect – it says Jan 19 9:36 pm

    It’s T – 54 seconds and holding

    It’s the 20th Jan here in NZ!

    🙂


  173. eaglesoars
    183 | January 19, 2018 10:12 pm

    PaladinPhil wrote:

    Time stamp is your/our current time zone.

    I finally figured that out. looked up at the clock


  174. eaglesoars
    184 | January 19, 2018 10:16 pm

    oh crap! they have to start over!


  175. 185 | January 19, 2018 10:16 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Rogue ship. :/


  176. Aussie Infidel
    186 | January 19, 2018 10:18 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    A rogue ship just entered into the long range down range envelop causing a hold at T-54 seconds.

    They’ve put the ‘strong-back’ back in place and are looking to launch during this window that closes in 40 minutes at NZST 1700.

    Fingers crossed!

    🙂


  177. Aussie Infidel
    187 | January 19, 2018 10:25 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    oh crap! they have to start over!

    Yup.

    It’s a 20 minute launch sequence so the clock has been reset to T-20:00


  178. 188 | January 19, 2018 10:27 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:
    Apparently the window is open to 1830 NZT according to the voice over. Few blackout windows in that launch window though due to other orbital traffic.


  179. Aussie Infidel
    189 | January 19, 2018 10:30 pm

    If this bird was under the control of Kim Jong Un if the range officer didn’t push that launch button on time he’d have his offending thump mailed home in an envelop. The rest of him would be delivered by artillery shell!

    🙂


  180. eaglesoars
    190 | January 19, 2018 10:36 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    they have envelopes?


  181. 191 | January 19, 2018 10:38 pm

    Screw it, way past my bed time. Will check in the morning. Night all.


  182. Aussie Infidel
    192 | January 19, 2018 10:43 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Yes made from recycled Party memos!

    🙂

    They have restarted the clock at about T-40 so they must be attempting to shift the boat. Maybe the launch window lasts until NZST 1730?

    Either way be are into the T-30s minutes

    I was intending to go pump some iron this afternoon but this bloody boat has screwed my afternoon schedule!

    Grrrrr


  183. Aussie Infidel
    193 | January 19, 2018 10:43 pm

    PaladinPhil wrote:

    Screw it, way past my bed time. Will check in the morning. Night all.

    Good night mate

    🙂


  184. Aussie Infidel
    194 | January 19, 2018 10:44 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Looks as if it’s just you and me Eagles!

    🙂


  185. Aussie Infidel
    195 | January 19, 2018 10:47 pm

    Orbital traffic is going to be an increasing imbuggerance as more and more of these cube-sats are placed in orbit. Someone needs to de-orbit all of the junk up there before someone gets smacked by a screw doing 5 miles a second!


  186. eaglesoars
    196 | January 19, 2018 10:51 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:
    Looks as if it’s just you and me Eagles!

    not me for long. my step son (blech) is supposed to show up around 1 am on his way back from Uruguay where he visited some woman he (take that at face value) impregnated that he’s now trying to get back to the U.S. The genius is 50 yrs old. I’m sure his arrival will wake Willow so I’m going to catch zzz’s while I can. I’m here 9 more minutes


  187. eaglesoars
    197 | January 19, 2018 10:53 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    Someone needs to de-orbit all of the junk up there

    someone posited the other day – what is some of China’s ‘space junk’ is really ‘space laser weapons’? I don’t know how plausible that is


  188. Deplorable Bumr50
    198 | January 19, 2018 10:53 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    Ay caramba.


  189. Aussie Infidel
    199 | January 19, 2018 11:02 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    Someone needs to de-orbit all of the junk up there

    someone posited the other day – what is some of China’s ‘space junk’ is really ‘space laser weapons’? I don’t know how plausible that is

    Unsure about that but a Chinese anti-satellite Kinetic Impactor caused a shit load of garbage when it was purposely crashed into a defunct Chinese satellite. The shit storm that followed was epic I heard. Apparently the Chinese either didn’t foresee what a massive cloud of rubbish they were about to create …. or more likely didn’t care!

    SPIT


  190. Aussie Infidel
    200 | January 19, 2018 11:04 pm

    T-17 minutes and counting.

    Still looking all green for launch!

    🙂


  191. eaglesoars
    201 | January 19, 2018 11:08 pm

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:

    Ay caramba.

    The fun part is going to be when she escapes from her shithole country to come to the promised land and finds out it’s – Newark, NY

    And the mother-in-law (a real joy, hubby’s ex), the ex-wife and son are all living right around the corner.

    Like I said. Genius.

    ok, nite.


  192. Aussie Infidel
    202 | January 19, 2018 11:09 pm

    Looks like we may have a visitor from … ‘not around these parts’ ……just to the West of the launch site.

    that or something screwy is interfering with the video feed

    ???


  193. Aussie Infidel
    203 | January 19, 2018 11:12 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Nite Eagles

    Holding at T-12 minutes

    Avionics amber apparently.

    Checking!

    Sigh!

    🙂


  194. eaglesoars
    204 | January 19, 2018 11:15 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    stopped at 12 mins, I have to go to bed


  195. Aussie Infidel
    205 | January 19, 2018 11:16 pm

    Holding T-12 and now the bloody wind is beginning to pick up.

    Luke Skywalkr and Han Solo never had these complications!

    HEH!

    🙂


  196. Aussie Infidel
    206 | January 19, 2018 11:17 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    G Nite Eagles.

    I’ll tell you about it tomorrow.

    My guess is that they are going to scrub it today and do it all again on Sunday

    Nite

    🙂


  197. Deplorable Bumr50
    207 | January 19, 2018 11:27 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    I’m sorry.

    Get some sleep, eagles.

    Nite.


  198. coldwarrior
    208 | January 20, 2018 7:21 am

    new thread…look like we have a failure to launch here.

    the kiwis cant seem to get it up.

    😆


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