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http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/sara-carter-fbi-informant-uranium-one-breaks-silence-explosive-testimony-congressional-committees/
http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/07/new-criminal-referral-confirms-nunes-memos-explosive-claims-of-fisa-abuse/#.Wnr13_-SYCw.twitter
Obama is giving Ebola a run for its money in the popularity department.
doriangrey wrote:
Must be time in that case for Obozo to visit NZ to ‘disappear for a while, play golf with his best bud John Key (spit) until the heat dies down.
The Obozo arrives March apparently.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
yinz can keep him and his ‘wife’ too
@ coldwarrior:
What has New Zealand ever done to you?
So much for German engineering. Not to mention Germany is the driver behind the idea of an EU military force.
German Navy experiences “LCS syndrome” in spades as new frigate fails sea trials
On top of the information systems issues, there are other problems: the ship leans a little to the right, is overweight, and can’t make top speed with its first-time-deployed combined turbine propulsion system that combines diesel and gas.
Reading the whole article, it sounds like absolutely nothing works
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/german-navy-experiences-lcs-affect-in-spades-as-new-frigate-fails-sea-trials/
eaglesoars wrote:
Hmmm, the ship wouldn’t be named the “Merkel” by any chance would it?
coldwarrior wrote:
Ohh Why do you hate kiwis so?
HEH!
🙂
doriangrey wrote:
Cruel …
Accurate but cruel!
🙂
right_wing2 wrote:
🙂
doriangrey wrote:
No. The ship lists to the right.
The Bundeswehr is having serious trouble fielding a single operational armoured brigade group as a ready reaction force in case of a Russian incursion into the Baltic states.They are currently negotiating with the Dutch and French to form a ‘composite euro Armoured Division’ with an Armoured Brigade from each country. Such is the woeful state of the spares and bottleneck and maintenance backlog in armour maintenance being suffered by the Bundeswehr. There are the odd Armoured Battalions within Bundeswehr Mechanised Brigades but to strip those tanks out to reinforce an all German Armoured Division, would only compound the problem for the rest of the army.
You get what you pay for and the Bundeswehr has been existing on ‘life support only’ funding for years and it sure shows.
Now the Flotmarine have ships that won’t sail straight !
Sorta says it all for the Euros !
@ eaglesoars:
HEH!
🙂
…. and now the emboldened Russian missile corps are emplacing Isklander mobile tactical nuclear missiles In the Kaliningrad salient that range from western Poland into Germany and over most of the Baltic.
Just because they can ……… and there is little or no push back from the milquetoast Euro regimes
rain of lead wrote:
Given the obvious level of blatant ‘look the other way’ evidence presented to the FISA courts how about we now get to know who the ‘turn a blind eye’ judges are !
eaglesoars wrote:
The political leanings definitions between Europe and the US are reversed. America’s Marxist Left, is Europe’s Marxist Right. Thought you knew that.
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/nasa-scientists-dispute-climate-change-2012-4?r=US&IR=T
Sigh !
Looks as if NASA is getting a little push back …. AGAIN
The Agency like the Academy is suffering from ‘Alinski’s March through the Institutions’ with it’s Director a politicised ‘true believer in Marxist Gerbal Worming.
He obviously doesn’t like it when the hoi poloi come calling armed with logic, brands and pitchforks
NASA its soooo last millennium
….. Alas
🙁
NASA is even attempting to badmouth the latest heavy lift Falcon launch ….. because Misk can do it for a fifth that NASA might do if it hadn’t lost its way at the end of the Cold War …. actually after Apollo 18 if the truth be told.
I saw a speech by Armstrong … one of the few he gave…. where he staged off the private sector for even attempting to get into space and make it pay. I was sad to see that he had been blinded by the NASA philosophies to that extent. Armstrong the company man and Aldrin the renagade so guess who got to walk on the Mon and get his name inscribed in history forever !
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I know, quick, let’s all hate on Elon Musk, that fix NASA’s little red rocket for sure.
Misk = Musk … and no I do not particularly like Mr. Musk either but at least he does stuff …. sometimes.
🙂
@ doriangrey:
Just glad that some folks, formally of the Agency, did a little pushing back against that ‘company would be if he could be marxist apparetchnik’ Charlie Bolden
@ doriangrey:
Hell I don’t personally like the politics of Rocketlab’s Pete Beck either. He of the Green Party associations.
I do however applaud his technology and actually ‘doing stuff’
🙂
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/100-far-left-activists-sign-lay-front-tanks-trumps-military-parade/
@ Gateway Pundit
What it is homies? Lefties sign up for speed bump duty if Trump has a military parade.
They think that this courageous, but they know damn well that our tanks will not roll over them.
RIX wrote:
no. what they know is that the tanks won’t get/be given the opportunity. Because if there were any doubt, there would be no volunteers
eaglesoars wrote:
Probably, but the tankers would stop.Now doing it in China took. nerve. In North Korea a death wish.
…. and another one goes … and another one goes …. and another one bites the dust
🙂
Draining the swamp one bucket a a time
The Department of Justice official who interviewed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as part of the investigation into her emails is leaving the agency, he announced on Wednesday.
David Laufman, who leads the DOJ’s counterintelligence division, is leaving the DOJ for “personal reasons.”
In addition to working on the investigation into Clinton’s handling of classified information, Laufman has also worked on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
On the Clinton investigation, he sat in on interviews with the former secretary of state and several of her aides, including Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin and Jake Sullivan.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Yea, personal reasons, his lawyer told him, “Move to a country with no US extradition treaty while you still can”.
Wait, what just happened w/Mark Warner? He was texting about Steele or something? I was on the phone (with Yenta btw, she says hi) and missed something
eaglesoars wrote:
i think he texted a ‘russian oligarch’ to set up a private meeting in London with Steele?
FYI Warner is a senator from Virginia
Thoughts on this whole idea of a military parade?
Here’s the story. What an absolute scumbag
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/08/democratic-sen-mark-warner-texted-with-russian-oligarch-lobbyist-in-effort-to-contact-dossier-author-christopher-steele.html
‘back channel’ my ass. If that had been ok, he wouldn’t have been worried about a ‘paper trail’
doriangrey wrote:
The dude is a raging leftist who made his fortune with subsidies by selling a product to people with more dollars than sense, except for the sense of how to get something with a tax credit. However, the whole Space X thing is very cool and his Star Man / Tesla dummy payload was a stroke of genius and very, very cool That is the kind of thing to hopefully inspire the next generation to reach for the planets and beyond. I can see someday in the future, a spacefaring civilization that has people who decide to go look for the orbiting Tesla.
AZfederalist wrote:
So… His Bachelors in Aeronautical Engineering, his Master’s in Applied Physics(University of Pennsylvania) and his Masters in Economics (the Wharton School) and his creation of PayPal had nothing to do with it eh? Even though it was PayPal that made him a billionaire. Just some leftist snake oil salesman, ok, gotcha…
doriangrey wrote:
What? And not AIDS? 👿 👿
doriangrey wrote:
Ecuador will be bulging at the seams!
🙂
right_wing2 wrote:
4th July would probably as good a date as any.
BUT It’s probably too late for the US to institute a massive military parade as it is totally split politically to the extent that no side wants the other to succeed at anything. Compounding that is the Progressive left’s loathing of the military. They would sabotage it just for the pleasure of seeing conservatives weep. It really is that toxic !
Time to water the garden of the nation with patriots blood, have the civil war everyone is hoping for , get it out of your system for another century or more and settle down again.
The annual $20 million to stage an American version of France’s Bastille Day Parade could probably be better spent on helping to fix the VA and its shoddy treatment of veterans.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I keep hearing libs saying this is just like the parades the Soviet Union put on, or that it’s a parade to stroke the ego of a dictator/tyrant etc.
In better news, I got a call yesterday about interviewing for a job with Farm Bureau as a claims adjuster.
Good morning. I am in Kansas City, and have a 1:30 flight back to Chicago.
Doesn’t look good. It is Snowmadeom back in Chicag, over 10 inches. I think that I will be looking for a hotel room.
Woe is me.
@ RIX:
I understand Kansas City has some very good steak places!
right_wing2 wrote:
oh wow! good luck!
I have a busy day but just going back thru some stuff. Mark Warner did not initiate contact w/Christopher Steele. Steele had a middleman – a Russian – contact HIM for a meeting. At first I didn’t realize the import of that, I was focusing on Warner’s duplicity.
Who the fuck is Christopher Steele? Why is the former MI6 chief of Russia Desk in this up to his neck? A mere consultant/hired hand doesn’t do this. This is the behavior of an active agent.
off to the races, later.
@ eaglesoars:
Yup, and that might be on the agenda tonight. KC has great ribs too.
@ RIX:
Great steaks, bbq and other places too.
Jack Stacks BBQ, Strouds for pan fried chicken. Been too long since I’ve had steak there.
right_wing2 wrote:
They do have great barbecue, but I don’t like Gates. I may have just got a bad order there though.
They are saying at 5he airport that we are going to fly. Taking that with a grain of salt, my wife says that nothing
is moving at Midway or Ohare.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Am I the only one around here who thinks this is just another rake Trump put in the libs front yard? Trump wants to emulate the FRENCH??
*THWAP*
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/02/09/chris-matthews-knows-why-republicans-are-picking-on-pelosi-and-its-unintentionally-hilarious/
@ Twitchy
Ok, I think that it is fair to stipulate that Chris Matthews is a dick with ears.
But this is blizzare even for him.
@ RIX:
Never been to Gates. Jack Stack is a little more upscale. For BBQ.
right_wing2 wrote:
If I get stuck here that sounds good, But they are threatening to fly.
RIX wrote:
Bbq
NYT report Assoc AG Rachael Brand is stepping down, reason unknown. She’s #3 at DOJ.
UPDATE! I’m back home. The Chemo session is outpatient…the oncologist reduced the dosage by 25%, and I have an Rx for nitro, in case the chest pains return. The last 12 hours will be the critical ones, because that’s when the arterial spasms occurred.
Keep praying! And Thanks!
@ Deplorable Macker:
that’s terrific news!
eaglesoars wrote:
…stout hemp rope…
@ coldwarrior:
listen to THIS b.s.
“She hadn’t planned to leave, but she got this dream offer from a Fortune 500…”
The most astonishing thing about that is they expect us to still believe this swill
@ eaglesoars:
i am throwing the BS flag.
@ Deplorable Macker:
keep the head up and follow your directions. so far so good.
eaglesoars wrote:
Walmart.
I kid you not. Which, I will remind you, is based in Arkansas and had Hillary on the board for years.
@ RIX:
o’hare in bad weather. i do not miss that at all.
its fun to be a travel warrior for a while, then the fun wears off in the middle of the second month.
@ eaglesoars:
unless ther is loss of pension, long jail time, and real honet to god reform, all of this is for naught.
god damn it…i warned EVERYONE on LGF that this would be the result of this bullshit patriot act and increased surveillance. i was promptly shouted down and labeled a muzz lover and anti-american lefty.
well, lgf muther-fuckers. i win.
coldwarrior wrote:
I got lucky, we actually took off. I flew Southwest to Midway and the ticket agent told me that my flight was
their only one that would fly from KC to Chicago today. He was right every other flight showed canceled.
Life typically doesn’t work like this, but I’ll take it.
coldwarrior wrote:
I remember that. I knew that you were right. This was predicable.
@ RIX:
good lord, good luck
coldwarrior wrote:
The FISA courts pre-dated the Patriot Act, I believe. Standards required for surveillance changed under the Patriot Act, I believe. This is covered in that 2 part series, the United States of Secrets that you ran a thread on. There’s no question the Patriot Act loosened up a lot of shit.
Having said that, note that the FBI had to lie to the court to get the warrants.
RIX wrote:
good deal.
i used to bribe the curbside baggage guys at ohare to get my bags to the earlier flight back to pgh…as i ran to get the flight.
by week 4 the guys understood, the ticket agent understood and even tsa would see me coming. united was more than happy to wedge me on the 345 and open my seat on the 515.
my taxi driver, and i would call him ahead of time, was heavily tipped to get me there and ‘give the hi sign’ at the curb.
a well oiled machine greased by $20 bills. this went on for almost 14 months. 2 weeks in at a time.
eaglesoars wrote:
the patriot act was the perfect opening.
ok, i had to watch pairs skating last night…now i have to watch the opening ceremonies. i will do this for marital bliss. this is my olympic penance and pain every 2 years.
i willfully married a russian, the skating and gymnastics part i get. its in their blood, so i must watch and suffer. the opening ceremony part? i think that i am getting messed with. i am off tomorrow, so i shall mix a brutal strong martini to get through this.
i promised myself a san latano oval for later. but this WILL hurt.
Trump refuses to declassify Dem memo
coldwarrior wrote:
you can come over to my house and watch dog mushing.
@ eaglesoars:
Oh God, I can already hear the talking heads.
right_wing2 wrote:
actually they seem to be talking about a 2nd WH staffer resigning under abuse allegations. Didn’t get a name, it’s on mute because I’m watching dog mushing…ahem.
Wait. US intel watched a grainy movie at the Russian embassy in Berlin that was supposedly Trump in the buff? And the NSA paid $100k to some Russian who said he had stolen NSA stuff but he took the money and disappeared?
why do we have a military? we have total morons who just open the door to our enemies and let them walk right the fuck in.
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/962139356369571841
coldwarrior wrote:
Shouted down? Charles put me in the kiddie room for a month for saying what a stupid fucking idea it was.
eaglesoars wrote:
HELP ME!!!!!!!
coldwarrior wrote:
WOOF!!
@ coldwarrior:
Have your better half blog the opening ceremny fashions.
What about Mexico’s gear? Skulls on their uniforms?
More on Cody Shearer. This Jonathan Winer (state dept) is saying he picked up Steele’s info from Sid Blumenthal who told him it was from a ‘journalist’ named Cody Shearer.
Shearer was never a journalist. In addition to being a hired Clinton thug, he was the one in cahoots with Brett Kimberlin to try to smear Dan Quyale w/ the story that Quyale bought drugs from Kimberlin.
Brett Kimberlin is – well, actually he may be out of jail by now, I forget. But he’s also a lead suspect in a murder. He’s a total bad guy
@ eaglesoars:
Bret Kimberlin, is he resurfacing again?
Wasn’t he pals with the owner of LGF?
eaglesoars wrote:
David Sorenson, WH speechwriter. don’t know what the allegations are
Calo wrote:
no, I don’t believe so, tho they may have known each other. Whatever else you can hang on Chuckles, Kimberlin isn’t his type. Kimberlin is a psychotic loose cannon. IIRC, TheOtherMcCain wrote about him quite a bit, as that’s where I learned about him. Quite a few bloggers sued him, I think the other mccain may have been one.
@ eaglesoars:
https://thediaryofdaedalus.com/2012/05/23/
@ eaglesoars:
Hogewash is generally up to date on Kimberlin (& crew) related stuff…
@ Calo:
Maybe Bunk or Arachne (Carolina Girl) can weigh in on Kimberlin and the history between Johnson.
I’m just surprised to see his name again in this national scandal.
right_wing2 wrote:
Congrats mate!
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
HEH!
🙂
Calo wrote:
I dunno, doesn’t look like much
@ CynicalConservative:
good god. what a sick world they live in
Calo wrote:
It’s not really out there…yet.
you know what was strange? I did searches on that Neal person. Almost nothing. It’s like there’s an algorithm blocking stuff.
Calo wrote:
we should have done that.
it would have been hysterical.
@ coldwarrior:
You had it down to a science.
So. I have a favor to ask. I have to have facial reconstruction surgery. Due to various med conditions and the meds I’ve had to take for them, my lower jaw has lost almost all bone and the upper one ain’t so great. The pics look like something you’d find in a dig in the Rift Valley from millions of years ago. Bone graft (possibly from cadaver), implants, the whole nine yards. The docs have answered every question but one thing they can’t tell me is – how bad is this going to be?
does anybody know anyone who has had this kind of thing done? My work is going to be done in stages over months to allow healing after various ops, so it’s not going to be an in-and-done deal. This isn’t optional, I have to have it done or the bottom of my face falls off. So don’t tell me I should think about it, that’s not on the list.
@ eaglesoars:
“”how bad is this going to be?””
Are you asking about pain as to how bad it will be?
Calo wrote:
that and healing. OUr puppy comes home on Feb 17, 1st round of surgery is Mar 13, then at least a 4 month break for healing. I don’t think there’s anything anyone can tell me about what I’m going to look like, apparently there’s not a lot to work with, I get to take what I get and like it. Or not.
Here’s the doctor, MD and DDS, Oral and Maxillofacial surgery out of Columbia Univ & Columbia Presbyterian Med Ctr. Snehal Patel (and he is a really fun guy, too, real easy laugh)
https://www.lortonoralsurgery.com/meet-our-team/meet-our-doctor/
@ eaglesoars:
Well, you will always look like a beautiful 29 year old with a wirery green perm and yellow hands that wave around wildly, as you post, to me.
The pain can be controlled.
Calo wrote:
I hope so. Pain means fatigue/no rest, which is going to be tough with a puppy. This one is, by all accounts, an absolute terror.
eaglesoars wrote:
no there isn’t. It’s Firefox. sometime during the day, any search engine I ask for defaults to something called ‘search encrypt’ which returns crap. Including google. If I search under the IE browser, it’s perfectly normal.
eaglesoars wrote:
and Chrome. It’s an extension I had to disable.
@ eaglesoars:
I wouldn’t worry too much, just make very sure you talk (or communicate with) your anesthesiologist beforehand and tell them this is a priority concern for you. Pain from surgery, as long as it goes correctly, lasts about the same from
one equivalent surgery to another. You heal. Every hour that goes by you’re healing and the pain level drops. Break a bone s like getting your chest getting cracked open in open heart surgery. Getting a tooth pulled s pretty much the same as losing the tooth after getting punched in the mouth. One just sounds worse than the other. IOW, a break is a break, an incision is an incision. They hurt yeah, but that pain goes down with the healing. If you have the surgery on Monday, thew first day will be the worst, the next day less and so on.
I hope I’m making some kind of sense here, I feel like I’m muckin’ it up. You’re gonna be ok as long as the communication is good. Having an advocate who understands you (like even when you’re doped up and drooling) is very helpful. As they explained it to me:
“We can’t make the pain go away completely but we can make it so you don’t care” (about the pain). Well, thats my 2 cents.
4_Sticks wrote:
that is part of my concern. One of my illnesses has caused liver cirrhosis and there’s only so much detox the poor thing can do. Altho, last time I checked, I’m still allowed to take valium! YAAYYY ME!
(thanks, btw)
@ eaglesoars:
And moving around, which raises your heart rate, makes pain worse. This is gonna be 100% your responsibility the first 10 days post surgery ?
@ eaglesoars:
I know the complication well. Narcotic pain meds shouldn’t be that much of a concern. Tylenol and street drugs are problematic, not pharmaceutical grade pain meds.
@ 4_Sticks:
I’m going to gently correct your timeline. The first 24 hours post op isn’t the worst pain since you still have Anesthesia rolling around in your bloodstream. The next day is the worst, then it eases up from that point.
And the docs can prescribe pain meds without acetaminophen that won’t interfere with your liver issues.
I forget what the doodad is called, but they load the little doodad machine with morphine or whatever, you push the button and only get so much per hour within the parameters that are safe for you , considering your medical history.
@ Calo:
I remembered, PCA or patient CONTROLLED anesthesia.
Calo wrote:
I shouldn’t need much. I learned some self-help techniques when I was dealing with trigeminal neuralgia. IF I can lay down in a quiet room for awhile, I can self-hypnotize to a point.
I’m off to read a bit. Le Carre’s new one, it’s excellent of course. Thanks for the feedback, nite.
@ eaglesoars:
Yeah, that’s a difficult, and quite painful, disease.
Prayers for you, my friend. I hope these surgeries patch you back up to your usual snark level that we all enjoy reading.
@ eaglesoars:
I’ve been reading about Cambodia.
Fascinating stuff.
Night
cw, sorry, my wifi won’t hold a signal…
@ Calo:
Correct. I don’t remember more than a minute of day one (the afternoon/evening proceeding the surgery) so day 2 is what I remember.
My point though is that barring any complications, recovery normally follows: The pain goes down as healing increases and the process goes along pretty quickly with only surgical wounds as opposed to those from say on the job accidents etc. Clean cuts make it only a matter of a day or two, if any, of serious levels of pain. What I recall from day one is waking up in ICU for a few minutes and thinking ‘damn this hurts’ (I may have said it out load to the nurse who was sitting right next to me) and that was that, out again. Yes, I had the ‘pump’ where I could give myself a dose of whatever it was in the tube. By day 3 I think it was just oxycontin 10 mg pills for the next 5 days or so then a prn supply for home use. I never got an argument when I told them I needed a higher dose either or when I needed a little extra.It wasn’t fun but wasn’t that bad either.
I was honest with them, told them that I was a big baby when it came to pain 🙂 .
this.
@ 4_Sticks:
I remember your posts from a few years ago compared to this year.
The miracles of modern medicine!
You, Sir, are a fine testimony to the ability of the body to heal itself.
@ coldwarrior:
holy shit!
coldwarrior wrote:
that were an ass beating
i was borne by the river….
oh hell yes.
@ coldwarrior:
yes i know its a classic blues song, those boys do it right.
gonna smoke a cigar, have a shot. celebrate saving a life.
im sore from cpr, brain hurts from ACLS.
i got to walk out of the trauma room and look at the kid and the wife with a grin.
we win.
this time…
thank god.
@ Calo:
for calo
morning y’all
geez…
@ eaglesoars:
*hug*
maybe I shouldpost this over at DoD
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5540595/winter-olympics-2018-lighting-ceremony-phallic-cauldron-fire-penis/
this is how horror movies start
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2018/02/08/zika-fighting-mosquitoes-with-mosquitoes/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T65rW_SIzg0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4URRp39XOo
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2018/02/09/jesse-jackson-objects-to-unfair-coin-flip-that-decided-tie-vote-for-team-usa-flag-bearer/
@ Twitchy
Good morning. Outside of hockey, some speed skating, and some ski jumps I do not care much about the olympics.
But wouldn ‘t you know race is now injected. Shani Davis a black speed skater tied in the vote to be flag bearer with a
white female athlete. So they settled it with a coin flip and she won.
Sounds fair right? Wrong you racist! He boycotted the opening ceremonies, and Jesse Jackson has even weighed in
rhyming some crap. So check your pockets and if you have any racist coins discard them post haste!
really now, “you had one job!”
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2018/02/05/Post-Super-Bowl-commercial-congratulates-wrong-team/2951517849556/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=13
Sylvester’s Catnip Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_Abx205F5o
@ Calo:
Well my body and mind (whats left of it) thanks you ! I think … 🙂
I was chattin’ with an old friend last night on FB when the topic of old (VERY old) TV shows came up. I was able to rattle off a half dozen right off the top of my head – from ‘The Peoples Choice’ to ‘My Little Margie” (yes, I told ya I’m old). Oh yeah, it was ‘Cleo’ the talking dog from ‘The Peoples Choice that sparked the topic. Jackie Coogan, wow, still got it this a.m. !!
Anyhow, I was no more than a few years old at the time these shows were on the air yet I distinctly remembered them – even remember the theme song to ‘I Married Joan’. Hey, thats a hard one !! It starts off, let me see now, wait, give me a second … GOT IT !! “I married Joan…”
Go ahead, ask me what I had for dinner last night… oh damn, now that I think of it …. did I even eat dinner ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAX7e8e4e2k
@ 4_Sticks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ynZ1k6LZeU
Remember her and Your Hit Parade?
@ RIX:
Probably just before my time. I was only 1 1/2 years old at that time. I need to check into how/when re-runs were used, if at all, in the mid 50s. I remember watching shows like ‘Highway Patrol’ in the evening with my dad as they aired
but I wonder about Saturday morning shows, if maybe I’m remembering re-runs ?
There was a time that I was the undisputed champ of useless trivia: “Who was the commercial sponsor(s) for what show ? ‘Nabisco’ and Sky King, ‘Borax Soap’ and Death Valley Days etc. I was an absolute TV FREAK as a kid.
@ 4_Sticks:
Ok got one for you. Death ValleyDays in 1964 & 1965 had a famous host.
And it was …………….? Ronald Reagan!
coldwarrior wrote:
Well done mate.
I would have expected nothing less from you!
Cheers,
eaglesoars wrote:
What’s the title?
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Actually the puppy will HELP. There are nothing like puppy licks and the unconditional love of a pup to distract one from discomfort.
coldwarrior wrote:
Tell me about it !
I was a s-l-o-w learner and it took me 20 years to get smart about travel!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
It can be a hassel, but if you do it enough you learn to roll with it. In the terminal I got on line and confirmed that my
favorite KC airport hotel had a complimentary shuttle. I had already dropped the car and figured the worst
thing that could happen is I will be stuck at a nice hotel for dinner and drinks and out in the morning.
How bad could it be?
@ RIX:
Glad you were able to get out.
Next time you’re in KC, you’ll have to check out Jack Stack BBQ (you can get some of there stuff at Sam’s Club once in a while) and Strouds. Strouds is pan fried chicken, served homestyle.
right_wing2 wrote:
Thanks. Shrouds I am familiar with. I am not with Jack Stack, I will make it a point.
Kansas City is one of my favorite cities.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Legacy of Spies
eaglesoars wrote:
My favourite was Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. I love the characterisations that give these books depth and something to get your teeth into.
🙂
The real life equivalent of the George Smiley’s character, who I know very well, from a ‘down-under service’, doesn’t like Le Carre one bit for some reason. He was treated very poorly in real life when he was too good at finding shall we say less than admirable spooks within the ‘system’ who were vulnerable to all sorts of evil pressure. He was labelled an ‘outsider’ … the worse form of censure. Not wrong, just not one of ‘us’ on the inside, and was squeezed out of the service by promoting him sideways to a ‘window’ task.
I really feel for him. He was always a prickly character in real life as were many of Le Carre’s fictitious characters. Hard to get one with. Easy to take offence. Demanding and driven to the point of driving his underlings crazy. Still underneath all that was a sweet caring individual who didn’t really ‘belong’ anywhere to the extent that he was complete within himself. Tragic case. I like him a lot although I have felt the acidic edge of his tongue on occasion. Better to leave him alone for a few months and eventually he seems to settle down and treat one as if nothing ever happened. I think on a few occasions he attempted to apologise to me. I was never totally sure !
🙂
Great author. Great books.
Shitty way of making a real living however!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
How many people have I been told are the basis for Smiley. I just finished a book on MI 6 (Art of Betrayal) and that author says it was actually a man of the cloth. In any event, no one in the service liked the way they were portrayed in Le Carre’s books. Bill Hayden and Kim Philby cut a bit close to the bone, but justice was served only in the book. My favorite book is Smiley’s People, where he finally gets ‘Karla’. Played in the movie by Patrick Stewart no less.
eaglesoars wrote:
A role truly befitting Patrick Stewart.
Today I had a stupid day.
The car I drive is a 2002 Lincoln Continintental the last they made. with a 4.6 engine.
Normally I drive like an old lady.
Power to weight ratio of a 2002 Lincoln is awesome
Acceleration when the old girl decides to wake up when you kick down is very impressive.
Today was a good day.
If an assshole attempts to change lanes and get in front of me I normally slow down and let them do it.
Today no way!
I drive in Houston. Do not fuck with me….
https://www.cbssports.com/olympics/news/2018-winter-olympics-red-gerard-wins-team-usas-first-gold-medal-on-slopestyle/
First U.S medal is gold. It was won my Red Berard in snowboarding. Here’s the kicker , he is 17 years old!
The kid acted his age in the best sense,and earned it. He will be on Fallon and the Toady show and all of
them. He had a life changing experience and the endorsements will come,
Great story.
Possum wrote:
yeah? HERE is ‘do not fuck with me’
3 camera angles, she holds her fire when a civilian is in the way, taking fire from both inside and outside the store.
Chicks with guns.
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aae_1518217453
eaglesoars wrote:
From observation Le Carre gives the fictional characters a partial pass. The real ones are either more deeply flawed, or they are the salt of the Earth types that you can trust your life to . There really doesn’t seem to be a middle group which is strange. Perhaps it’s the nature of the job that drives the denizens to the extremes. One thing I did notice. The higher up the ‘food chain’ the more personally ruthless the people got…. with a few very notable exceptions. The mate I alluded to being one. Most directors are total arseholes. I really don’t understand why that is.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
It’s because the salt of the earth types don’t kiss the appropriate political asses to make it that far. They report/answer to people whose most difficult decision is which car to tell the chauffeur to bring up. To this day, the UK is one of the most idiotically class conscious societies on the planet.
One of the big reasons Kim Philby got away with it was because of his background and who his father was (quite an interesting guy/life). It couldn’t have been Philby because ‘he is one of us’. To this day they’ve never been able to accept the truth of what he always said: He never betrayed anyone because he was NEVER with them, he was ALWAYS with the other side. Absolutely true. But to them, he was BORN ‘with them’ and that’s the betrayal they simply cannot bear.