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Loyola of Chicago has just beat beat Tennessee and move on to the Sweet 16.Yeah baby!
RIX wrote:
my schedule is so effed up that i wont get to see, and havent got see any of the hoops.
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https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/975170339608014848
stinkin’ salt mines….
An Islamist, a Communist, and a traitor walk into an Irish barâŚ.
Bartender says, “What can I get you, Mr. Brennan?”
Brennan needs to be NEXT!
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coldwarrior wrote:
Everybodyâs brackets are broken, UMBC beats Virginia! Say what? That came out of nowhere.
@ coldwarrior:
Did you get my inquiry about that additional couple of translations the other day mate. If your good lady can’t or doesn’t want to let me know and I’ll tell Andrew C not to send any more.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORifieiZiP4
Come Out Ye Black & Tans, Wolfe Tones.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
i did, will have it by friday.
@ lobo91:
Comey should be locked up, but he is a deep state oligarch, somI doubt that will happen.
@ RIX:
If AG Sessions is not part of the Deep State coup d’etat attempt, then Comey will end up in prison.
doriangrey wrote:
That is where he belongs. Now he is doing a book tour.
coldwarrior wrote:
Thanks mate and please thank your good lady.
P
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https://cofda.wordpress.com/2015/08/26/cia-director-john-brennan-is-a-muslim-convert/
Brennan! A Wahabbist?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
CIA stations don’t stamp visas
@ Aussie Infidel:
He did storm out of the Washington Times interview when Islam came up. Interesting transcript
https://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2010/aug/23/wh-counter-terrorism-adviser-brennan-storms-out-tw/
@ eaglesoars:
Good catch
@ RIX:
‘James Comey warns Trump: The American people will ‘soon’ be able to judge ‘who is honorable and who is not’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/james-comey-warns-trump-the-american-people-will-soon-be-able-judge-who-is-honorable-and-who-is-not
Here we go. Oh, and:
“May those who love us …
May those who love us, love us;
And for those who don’t love us,
May God turn their hearts;
And if He doesn’t turn their hearts,
May He turn their ankles,
So we will know them by their limping!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qwu5OGxfi8
Just sayin’ …
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day to one and all !!
4_Sticks wrote:
“After they buy my book.”
@ Aussie Infidel:
Good one. I do think there is a high pitched sound about created by guilty Obama minions. Need to make them sing.
lobo91 wrote:
and it’s spelled ‘Jeddah’. For all I know – or these clowns for that matter – there was no CIA station in Jeddah back then. The capital is Riyadh
Here’s an interesting piece by Clarice Feldman about the McCabe thing. “Lacking Candor” = perjury.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/03/if_you_are_a_fed_official_perjury_is_lacking_candor.html
There’s a more interesting comment from Chappaquiddick Olympian:
The most interesting item to be revealed in this turn of events was that Judge Contreras was appointed to the FISA court May 19, 2016. Why is that?
Because Donald Trump clinched the nomination on May 26, 2016. Nellie Hauke Ohr, spouse of DOJ top official, Bruce Ohr, received her ham radio license on May 20, 2016.
James Comey wrote the HRC exoneration memo in May 2016, months before she was interviewed in July 2016.
May 2016 appears to be the pivotal month in which the plot began to unfold to undermine a federal election because that’s precisely what occurred with this cast of characters.
This entire situation should be reviewed by a grand jury, not a special prosecutor but either way the circumstances for indicting this entire cast of miscreants including Mueller should be easy to make.
Why Mueller? It’s obvious now he was tipped off by Comey about Strzok’s illegal activities and that’s why Mueller needed him on his team. Remember, Mueller and Comey are also attorneys and have an obligation to report illegal activity and can be disbarred for not doing so.
Mueller only removed Strzok from the investigation after IG Horowitz notified Mueller about Strzok’s illicit texts which revealed the entire plot.
By not indicting Strzok, Mueller is guilty of obstructing justice and so is Comey.
At this point the plot is obvious and the only question that remains is will Linda Page flash those big white teeth when she’s perp walked?
@ eaglesoars:
oh, h/t Pink Freud, she says ‘hey’
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/03/matt-drudge-reminds-us-robert-mueller-hardly-saint/
@ Gateway Pundit
Good morning. Matt Drudge reminds why Muller is a vindictive witch hunter.
Shut this fraud down. I have spoken.
@ RIX:
not only that. I think Mueller was in charge when it was closed as ‘solved’ – because the person they were after – a scientist who knew how to aerosolize it – committed suicide. How convenient.
And Mueller is also the guy who oversaw the ‘cleansing’ of FBI manuals of ‘Islamophobic’ tilts.
@ eaglesoars:
I know that it would cause Lib and Media outrage, but it is time to shut Muller down.
He is nothing but a deep state oligarch.
@ RIX:
I’m of 2 minds about it (like I’ve got one to spare, I know). Somehow, hope simmers that Mueller runs out the rope and hangs himself. Someone said ‘for justice to be done, it must be SEEN to be done’. It would be the best outcome if this became so obviously corrupt that only the most rabid could deny it and the demand for fairness came from more than Trump tweets.
@ eaglesoars:
I hear that but it is clear that Muller wants a scalp. He will veer of the original purpose of the investigation and
try to get somebody for something,peferably Trump.
At this point I think that it is clear that the goal is to stopTrump from functioning and remove him.
This is an attempt at a coup dâ etat. The way that they deflect that is to ridicule anybody who points that out.
@ RIX:
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/975023388430188545
@ doriangrey:
Imo Oscar has got it. But Deep State oligarchs project the franchise. The corruption goes deeper than I ever suspected. What I am waiting for are some FBI agents to get whistler blower protection and spill their guts.
You just know that the field agents are pissed over Comey, McCabe and Strock antics.
@ RIX:
ROTFLMAO… I am Oscar…
doriangrey wrote:
Then Dorian is right
N.O Mayor Mitch Landreu was just on with Stephanapolous for an interview. These two were in rare form.
George called the Trump era âdark timesâ Landreu compared Trump to David Duke. He also said that Trump
supporters are listening to their. âdarker angelsâ But they donât use hyperbole and smears at all./
This guy is trying to get of rid of our slug of a GOP State Senator, and I think I want to help him.
Never really got involved in a campaign before.
https://www.shaffer4pa.com/
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Looks like a good choice.
https://thegatewaypundit.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a1f9b29171f5fb45edb2520ae&id=b0e64eada1&e=d43a186674
@ Gateway Pundit
Marco Rubio is a swamp creature, nothing more or less.
@ RIX:
And then there’s the truth:
lobo91 wrote:
That keeps getting left out of news reports. The truth is apparenty hateful if it is at odds with the narrative.
so in other news
the girl and I just got back from watching Tomb Raider
the lara croft reboot movie based on the game by the same name
DAMN GREAT popcorn movie
CW, ya gotta take the girls to see it
here is the trailer for the game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH66YdKR-rw
and here is the trailer for the movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ndhidEmUbI
it was so very well done
lobo91 wrote:
I missed that part.
There’s a new show on Fox on Sunday’s at 8 pm called Wise Guys. It got torpedoed for awhile because Steve Wynn was one of the original Wise Guys but it’s back – with the very classy Maria Bartaromo.
Anyhoo, Oliver North is one of the WG and he was talking about something keeping people up at night. Swarming drones, controlled by AI, too many to take out, carrying as little as 2 grams of explosives, can penetrate helmets, flak vests, etc.
good thing I can sleep thru just about anything.
@ eaglesoars:
this is what Ollie was referring to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM
and this
SCIFI Weapons That Actually EXIST!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REi8y34Y8Bc
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/975550910033047553
UMBC loses to K State. They played hard & hung tough. No matter what they made history a 16 knocking offf
a 1.
doriangrey wrote:
love to see the contributor list on that one.
The Rothschilds control the climate. According to a D.C. council member by the name of Trayon White
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-lawmaker-says-recent-snowfall-caused-byrothschilds-controlling-the-climate/2018/03/18/daeb0eae-2ae0-11e8-911f-ca7f68bff0fc_story.html?utm_term=.fe52591d4c5c
I got past the paywall using google
rain of lead wrote:
I got nuthin’
methinks the worm is turning.
coldwarrior wrote:
snow on Tuesday, crap on Weds.
oh goody
Diversity Fail? All-Women Engineering Team Blamed for Collapse of Miami Pedestrian Bridge
http://sandrarose.com/2018/03/diversity-fail-women-engineering-team-behind-collapse-miami-pedestrian-bridge/
@ eaglesoars:
lets see how fast that story gets squashed into the ground
Interesting piece on how Erdogan/Turkey has managed to destroy its own air force
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/how-turkey-destroyed-its-own-air-force-24942
rain of lead wrote:
to be fair, it seems there was a problem with the installation (and not the design). The center support and cables hadn’t been placed yet. The phone call that wasn’t picked up advising about cracks is also about implementation.
OTOH, this company seems to have a history of engineering fuck ups, so I dunno
There’s been another bombing in Austin
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5516859/Two-injured-Austin-explosion.html
bedtime, nite
@ eaglesoars:
The people building the bridge wanted it to fail because women had designed it. Itâs all because of sexism .
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@ eaglesoars:
math
coldwarrior wrote:
*Disclaimer: This assumes the flaw is in the design, not construction
YES. There are some women really good at math, but as a percentage of the female population, not nearly as many as there are men really good at math.
I can’t use myself as an example, because I had other developmental oddities (synesthesia, etc.) that interfered with how I understood lots of things compared to how the establishment THOUGHT I should.
But we know female brains are physically different from males’ and we see the differences in performance in numerical, spatial and verbal. Yet math is taught to female brains in the exact same manner as it’s taught to male brains. Square peg, round hole. Women are certainly capable of understanding the stuff, but in my observational experience, the lights go on later, when the curriculum has passed them by. I suspect different teaching approaches may be helpful.
coldwarrior wrote:
There is a reason that the math in structural engineering is so damned hard… This is it. Get it wrong, and people die.
@ eaglesoars:
Its funny how straight forward and simple, yet amazing complicated and difficult the equations in structural engineering are. From what I have heard so far, I am pretty sure that the “Engineers” involved in that bridge violated at least one of structural engineering sacrosanct laws. Triple redundancy of structural support.
Because there have been so many structural collapses of structures that resulted in multiple deaths due to the engineer relying on only 1 or 2 structural support devices it has become pretty much religious canon that any structure that will involve regular constant human traffic must have a triple redundant structural reinforcement element, and those elements may not be interdependent.
Most structural building codes allow an engineer to rely on only 2 which may be interdependent and it sounds as if this is why this structure failed. Using only 2 with the secondary element being interdependent on the first is a highly controversial “Cost cutting/saving” technique that most engineers consider a unacceptable practice.
@ doriangrey:
Oh, and on a bridge, that triple redundancy is usually a combination of, 1) the compressive strength of the concrete, 2) the tensile strength of the steel reinforcement, and 3) the diameter and distance of the structural colonnade support (this is predicated on what is known as great circle arc support its how the Romans used to support their bridges).
doriangrey wrote:
Yes. (I dated an arch. eng. student). But my understanding in this case is that those redundant elements – cables and center support column – had not yet been installed. If that report is correct, then the redundancies were part of the structure as designed, something went wrong with the construction/implementation.
eaglesoars wrote:
Those are known as interdependent support elements, and relying on them is strictly verboten. They are verboten because if the structural element they are dependent on fails, they automatically fail as well.
Remember, this bridge was not a cable stay bridge. In a cable stay, the cables work to provide one of the primary structural support elements, they are the “Great circle arcs” in the bridges support.
Great circle arc supports are called great circle arcs, because if you take the arc in question and draw a circle using that arc, 30% of that circle has to be within the arc in question. More or less of the circle in the arc and the arc is no longer providing structural support. It has to do with how gravity pulls down on the arc and the material strength of the arcs resists gravity.
They are extremely stable because side a) and side b) of the arc have equal and opposing force acting on the key stone of the arc. At greater than or less than 30% of the great circle the forces are not equal and opposing and they create multiple failure points where load builds up and compromises the structural integrity of the structure.
doriangrey wrote:
Oh, I didn’t understand that part, I thought it was/is. Then why even have them?
eaglesoars wrote:
That is exactly the question that the American Society of Civil Engineers is going to be asking.
The answer is probably going to end up being… To reduce the cost of the bridge.
Now, do not misunderstand me on this. Interdependent structural support has its place. That place however is and never should be as primary structural support. Its proper place is for secondary and tertiary external load conditions.
In other words, primary support deals with gravity. Where as secondary support deals with ground movement and tertiary deals with atmospheric conditions (i.e. rain, snow, ice and wind).
You every see the video footage of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse? Its primary and secondary structural support was about as perfect as it could be. It had zero tertiary support. A constant 40mph wind caused it to sway and buckle to the point of complete catastrophic failure, they called it “Galloping Gertie” the harmonic oscillations were so bad.
Less experienced and desperate engineers will sometimes attempt to use secondary or tertiary interdependent structural support elements in place of the more expensive primary support in order to cut corners on construction costs. Its a dangerous risk that more experienced engineers consider verboten.
@ doriangrey:
Oh, BTW, there is a requirement on lateral support strength, and my guess, is that the bridge design used the bare minimum of lateral support required and was counting on the secondary and tertiary support to buttress the primary support.
Don’t quote me on this, but if memory serves me correctly lateral support is required to be 5 times the maximum weight of materials plus expected maximum traffic load.
Their primary lateral support was probably under that limit and they were counting on the secondary and tertiary support providing an excess greater than the lateral support requirement. That bridge should not have been opened for traffic until that secondary and or tertiary support was in place if that was the case.
Remember, I am just speculating here, all I have seen are pictures of the bridge before and after and not the actual architectural blueprints. I could be completely wrong, it could be a case of substandard building materials, though, to be honest, that is relatively rare here in the US.
I’m not sure that the public will ever hear the real reason why it collapsed, but you can pretty much bet that the architect/engineer, the construction supervisor and quiet possibly the building material supplier will all be hung out to dry on this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y43fE0Iwslc
doriangrey wrote:
My high school counselor’s brother had his PhD in Civil Engineering. She told us that he had one class as an undergrad that everyone, and she meant everyone failed. the first time they took the class. The Prof’s reasoning was that if you become a doctor, you can only kill one patient at a time, if you screw up as a Civil Engineer, you can kill hundreds or thousands at a time.