…Done with 5 night shifts in a row. Mrs Coldwarrior is going to take me to lunch after I nap. I picked the place.
It’s a new bar in an old building in a town that fell on hard times when the mills closed and NAFTA/GATT gutted what was left of manufacturing.
It seems there is a little revitalization going on in that beat up town down the road…it’s not gentrification as that wouldn’t work here. Maybe the town is slowly getting back on its feet.
I will report back later this afternoon.
BREAKING: Tsunami warning following massive Kodiak-area quake downgraded to ‘advisory’ status
http://www.ktuu.com/content/news/URGENT-Earthquake-strike-off-Alaska-coast-470654243.html
but first, some good tequila neat and a great cigar. i hate doing cpr on someone younger than me…it was a horrible morning.
nap time.
@ coldwarrior:
In case you missed it, my brother had a heart attack Sunday. He’s in the hospital, had to have artery router rooted and a stint put in, should be out of the hospital sometime this afternoon.
Some good news I guess, hospital is releasing him as soon as my sister in law gets there to pick him up.
hey CW, look at the IMF estimate for global growth. 3.9%. Trump. When he walks into Davos, they are going to stand up on their chairs and cheer. Then, when Theresa May calls him and says they really WOULD like him to come to the UK, he can tell her has an appt in Lapland with the reindeer.
http://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2018/01/11/world-economic-outlook-update-january-2018
CEOs at Davos See Robust Global Growth, Praise Trump Moves
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ceos-at-davos-see-robust-global-growth-praise-trump-moves-1516737082?mod=e2tw
@ eaglesoars:
I love it when the pundits and Dem consultants try to credit Obama for the economic surge.
It’s Trump and they can’t. stand it.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/01/23/nfl-rejects-veteran-submitted-please-stand-super-bowl-lii-ad-for-being-too-political.html
The NFL sucks, they have been frauds for years.
@ RIX:
Chris van Hollen was just on Neil Cavuto saying his Maryland constituents are going to owe more in taxes. Tough shit. Maryland tax rate (especially Montgomery County) are sky high. A POTUS is supposed to tell people in Idaho that they have to pay more because Maryland is profligate? And get this. The Maryland attorney general wants the Gov to give him money to sue Trump. The Gov said he gets plenty of money from consumer protection stuff, use that. The AG is bitching he needs more because he has to hire people to go thru all Trump’s tax returns so he can find grounds for suing.
Unreal. I’m not sure that he even has standing to see Trump’s tax returns, let alone file suit based on them. If I were a MD taxpayer – well, that’s why I moved to virginia.
@ doriangrey:
We’ll keep you in our prayers.
Glad he’s being released.
Keep us updated.
Anyone hear how Macker is doing?
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
yeah, he’s doing fairly well, I’m calling him tonite as a matter of fact. He posts on FB if you want to check there
eaglesoars wrote:
I wouldn’t hit that with YOUR computer.
🙂
GREAT news, though.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Sorry to hear that Dorian. Glad they are letting your brother loose.
All the very best mate
🙂
http://www.newsweekly.com.au/article.php?id=57932&s=UgPbhh
China throwing its weight about ‘downunder’.
I have seen first hand here that the local Chinese Consulate are demanding that Chinese citizens show up to be questioned by consulate staff about their loyalty to the CCP. Electronic methods are being used to discover … ‘ less than enthusiastic support for the CCP’ and to identify ‘backsliders’ !
@ Aussie Infidel:
Brady was HERE?? In Arlington? I wish I’d known, I’d love to talk to her.
Yep, you guys have a swamp worse than ours.
Ursula Le Guin has died. One of the greats
eaglesoars wrote:
Most of them are gone: Heinlein, Clarke, Simak, Zelazny. Not sure if Laumer is still alive or not.
I did read some Le Guin, her style was a bit tedious. “The Dispossessed” went on forever with no real point.
Just talked to Macker. He’s back in the ER because the spot on his wrist they used for an IV won’t stop bleeding (he’s on a lot of bleeder drugs, eg, aspirin, etc.). He’ll keep me posted.
@ AZfederalist:
You have to be able to get lost in language to appreciate her. When I first tried, she just annoyed the hell out of me. It wasn’t until I was a good deal older I could just let it flow
@ AZfederalist:
Niven is still around
eaglesoars wrote:
Which is amazing as when I met him back in the mid 70’s, he really didn’t look all that good. He was probably only in his 40’s, but seemed much older, and rambled on often losing his track of thought.
@ doriangrey:
he’s 79 now. I think.
AZfederalist wrote:
Nope Keith Laumer died back in 1993. I really loved his Bolo series.
doriangrey wrote:
Back when I was reading his work, I had to read what our local library had not the shelf. I did read some of the Retief series later. One of the books in the library was Knight of Delusions. There was another one, but I don’t remember the title, the cover was of a finger pushing in a checkerboard with a square on another part of the board being pushed out.
@ AZfederalist:
… had ON the shelf.
eaglesoars wrote:
Tell me about it!
Our politicians are ‘For Sale’ …. CHEAP !
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
Alas we lost Pournelle late last year. 🙁
@ AZfederalist:
“The Glory Game” 🙂
https://enlitenbloggomrymden.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/keith-laumer-the-glory-game-1973-cover-by-roger-zimmerman.jpg?w=660
AZfederalist wrote:
Snicker snicker… Way back… When I first went to high school, (My High School was 9th grade through 12th) I took library science, it was a brand new high school, opened that year, and the library was still ordering books. I got to order anything I wanted. My high school had the very finest most extensive science fiction collect of any high school in America in 1975/76.
That’s how I ended up meeting Asimov, Heinlein, Niven, Simak, Clarke, Pournelle, and Herbert.
doriangrey wrote:
That’s awesome!
@ doriangrey:
When I read stuff like this while I’m sitting here in the ER, I wish I could just upding stuff. I hope there can be some improvements sometime…!
PaladinPhil wrote:
That’s how I found out Niven is still kicking
PaladinPhil wrote:
That’s it! Thanks
@ AZfederalist:
No problem. Going to have to dig through what I have and figure out which of his I am missing on my e-readers.
@ Deplorable Macker:
Hey Mack! Hope you’re doing OK! Prayers!
THIS…is bullshit.
Dollar Dumps Below Key Level – Worst Start To A Year Since 2003
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-23/dollar-dumps-below-key-level-worst-start-year-2003
supposedly because of concerns Trump’s trade policies will be ‘protectionist’ and Mueller’s possible questioning.
We are taking the lead in energy exporting, our economy’s growth hasn’t been like this in decades – and they’re shorting the dollar? No. China’s doing something, maybe Russia, I don’t know what, but I don’t buy this
bedtime. nite.
Has it well and truly begun?
https://twitter.com/TheRealJuIian/status/956116135807565824
Apparently ICE is deporting a Polish Doctor who’s been here for 40 years.
So much for the claim that enforcement is against black and brown people.
@ doriangrey:
That’s a parody account
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/video-germany-introduces-womens-pants-safety-alarms-thwart-off-migrant-sex-attacks/
@ Gateway Pundit
Well alrighty then, German company introduces a line of “alarm”pants to ward off migrant rape.
See Merkel was just trying to spur the economy by launching a brand new industry, right ?
@ eaglesoars:
Apparently Peter Beck slipped aboard a Kiwi bit of whimsy when he launched the second Electron rocket last Sunday. It’s a 1 metre light and radar reflector that will probably be the brightest satellite in orbit. He put it there just to encourage folks to look up occasionally and think about stuff that is a bit deeper than what they are planning to watch on TV tonight.
It’ll orbit for about 8 months and then fall back to Earth and burn up. Orbital frequency is 90 minutes and it’s in an 82 degree inclination so it should be able to be seen everywhere from time to time.
🙂
Sounds typical of Pete. He’s bit of a dreamer but with a hard practical edge to his imaginings.
🙂
I Conn is offering counseling and has restricted access to a speech by Ben Shapiro.
Must be rough being that delicate.
@ right_wing2:
That should be UConn.
Damn it. I was sitting here, just minding my own business, when I heard someone yelling for help. Our next door neighbor had had a stroke while raking leaves in the backyard. Ran over and helped his wife, called an ambulance.
Shit, after my brothers heart-attack Sunday its starting to feel as if someone is trying to drop a piano on my head.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/james-comeys-ethics-class-1516666316
The rest is behind a paywall. I don’t need to read it.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Is anybody else starting to hear people in faux high dudgeon, taking people to task for ‘smearing the entire department[FBI]’ on just the basis of Stzrok/Page?
Speaking for myself, I haven’t heard anyone smear the entire dept. I suspect it’s a strawman argument designed to get people to shut up. I could be wrong.
@ eaglesoars:
DOJ’s pearl’s are sufficiently clutched.
Sessions needs to go.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-warns-house-intel-chairman-purported-secret-memo/story?id=52587663
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
yeah, I saw that. The world’s smallest violin is around here somewhere
eaglesoars wrote:
Isn’t that Bill Kristol’s band?
“Yeah, we didn’t JUST lose THOSE texts, we lost ALL of them…”
Thousands Of FBI Cellphones Affected By Glitch That Lost Strzok-Page Texts, Officials Say
Thousands of FBI cellphones were affected by the technical glitch that the DOJ says prevented five months’ worth of text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page from being stored or uploaded into the bureau’s archive system, federal law enforcement officials tell Fox News.
The missing messages have been at the center of a storm of controversy on Capitol Hill, after the DOJ notified congressional committees that there is a gap in records between Dec. 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017. Strzok and Page are under scrutiny after it was revealed that the former members of Robert Mueller’s team exchanged a series of anti-Trump texts during the presidential campaign.
The gap in records covered a crucial period, raising suspicion among GOP lawmakers about how those messages disappeared.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/372328-thousands-of-fbi-cellphones-affected-by-glitch-that-lost-strzok-page-texts-officials-say/
@ eaglesoars:
@ lobo91:
Voxplaining.
lobo91 wrote:
1. I’ve seen one report that Steele took the dossier to the FBI independently but I’m not sure I believe it. In any event, I don’t think he knew who GPS Fusion was working for – more accurately, I haven’t seen any evidence that he did
2. Right now, it’s my understanding that Fusion GPS worked with the Hillary campaign thru her law firm, Somebody and Coies. I’m not aware that Simpson saw anyone else from the campaign
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
watch Samsung sue for laying some of the responsibility on them. I hope they do, discovery will be a bitch. I saw a meme: Samsung phones do not delete texts. Traitors do
@ eaglesoars:
No how hard it is to delete texts on phones? Depending on how many you have with android it takes special software to do it. It’s not just pushing a button and it’s done. I had to delete a tone just to keep the damn phone functional and I couldn’t through the text program. I had to get a separate program to do it and it took me an hour to delete them. Think about that for a second.
@ PaladinPhil:
I just select a text and select delete. (I have android)
Hannity is saying DOJ has begun recovering some of the missing texts
@ eaglesoars:
Don’t bother Jeff!!
He’s busy screening “Reefer Madness” to an auditorium of wayward youth…
@ eaglesoars:
Issue I discovered recently, if you are trying to delete an entire conversation over a certain number of texts (think it’s a thousand?) Android just hangs and won’t delete them. Only way to remove them is with another app. Single messages? sure no problem. Having hundreds of conversations disappear for a certain time frame is not a glitch.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Ole Jeff is a busy boy. Did you see the DOJ is going after the mayors of sanctuary city mayors PERSONALLY? I don’t know what the legal grounds for that are, but Rahm Emmanuel went ballistic. HA! I’d love to see Tiny Dancer carted off in cuffs w/a tutu over his face.
This is odd:
In the past 48 hrs: Facebook’s chief marketing officer resigns, Twitter’s chief operating officer resigns, and Snapchat’s VP Product resigns.
@ eaglesoars:
@ PaladinPhil:
I think the the devices are irrelevant.
These were FBI phones they were using. “Official communication.”
Pretty sure those texts are archived by the agency, and that’s what went “missing,” allegedly.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Maybe I’m wrong.
out of the goodness of my heart i went into work today for a few hours…we are being over run by flu.
thus far, only one of our nurses has fallen ill, that is a testament to the immune system of ER nurses and/or the flu shot actually working for once.
one of the big level 1 centers in the city is down to its last 25 beds (750 unit) the other is at 90% capacity.
its pretty bad this year
@ coldwarrior:
Heard IV bags were a problem as well.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
see my post above. Hannity reported that DOJ is beginning to recover the texts from the 5 month period.
@ coldwarrior:
do you have a feel for how many people coming in actually got flu shots? I got mine and even if it’s ‘only’ 10% effective, that’s better than nothing.
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/01/11/flu-cases-double-since-last-week/
needles to say, the system is under some serious stress.
eaglesoars wrote:
10-15% of those i triage in total for all visits got their flu shot.
the ‘flu like symptoms’ who i triage, almost none got theirs.
like i said, 100% of staff got theirs and we are only one down out of 25-30 not including ancillary, non-patient care staff
coldwarrior wrote:
Interesting Ferdian slip there
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
yeah, some genius decided that it would be a great idea to locate ALL production of saline (NSS) in Peurto Rico…
effin idiot move there.
AZfederalist wrote:
😆
perfect.
i need a cigar.
bbl
coldwarrior wrote:
sounds statistically significant.
bedtime. nite.
AZfederalist wrote:
nite, Ferd
Good morning. Having to do with nothing I rolled out early and went to the gym. The monitor on my treadmill
was on Morning Joe. So I decide to watch that freak show. Thing One and Thing Two did not disappoint..
They played a clip of Senator Johnson of Wisconsin talking about off site meetings by FBI types slotting against Trump.
Joe mocked him using some weird Foghorn Leghorn dialect( the Senator is from Wisconsin!) Mika smirked acting like Navis Johnson in drag. And the guest joining in was Bill Kristol.
See, I told you that it had to do with nothing
RIX wrote:
soon to be wiped off her botoxed mug
Rush is reporting DOJ is saying they’ve recovered ALL the ‘missing’ texts. All. Of. Them.
RIX wrote:
Looks like there may be an alternative soon. Vince McMahon is bringing back the XFL. And there won’t be any anti-american bull going on there. He’s way too big of a supporter of the military to let his people piss them off.
I’ve been in and out all day, the bits I’ve heard on the radio, Trump is killing it in Davos
And Bill Kristol has hit a new low. Apparently he said Tucker Carlson’s show is now close to ‘ehno-racism’.
There aren’t enough fans for THAT to hit….
Here it is. Interview w/John Harwood CNBC
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/24/bill-kristol-takes-on-fox-news-tucker-carlson.html
“Now Fox is sort of — 75 percent of it seems to be birther-like coverage of different issues,” Kristol tells CNBC’s John Harwood.
Kristol criticizes Fox News host Tucker Carlson, saying what he does on TV is “close now to racism, white — I mean, I don’t know if it’s racism exactly — but ethno-nationalism of some kind, let’s call it.”
The Photo That Never Saw The Light of Day: Obama With Farrakhan In 2005
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/photo-of-obama-louis-farrakhan-to-be-released
For those of us who have been around the block and have a keen eye for BS, this doesn’t surprise anyone. I still am shocked some many dipshits fell for the “hope-and-cahnge” tripe and never bothered to lift the tent flap to see what was behind the jugeared frauds shtick.
https://www.thescore.com/nfl/news/1465191
If the info is accurate it will be two years until the first game.
I don’t really like football but I kind of enjoyed the XFL. I thought the uniforms looked better and the game played faster and was overall more enjoyable than the constant time outs and navel gazing of the average NFL game.
Didn’t realize NFL Europe was shut down. Looks like there’s a talent pool out there for McMahon to draw from.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
I just came back to post that. They never lifted the flap because they were inside the tent.
new thread.
RIX wrote:
Sounds like three nothings