Why is it still so damned cold??????
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by coldwarrior ( 131 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at March 22nd, 2018 - 12:15 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
Silly boy !
It’s the bloody Global Warming of course.
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Hot cold wet fine it’s all Gerbal Worming!
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@ Aussie Infidel:
Climate change.
Someone go find ManBearPig for comment!
Round 6 begins tomorrow!
See? I TOLD you they lie. Our forecast says right now it’s “33 but it feels like 23”. No. It’s 23 you wankers, there’s no 33. High is supposed to be 49 but it will feel like 33. Oh spare me. You’re just hiding the data to keep up the globular warming hoax.
In other news, it occurs to me that Mark Suckerberger’s chances of running for POTUS are slightly worse than mine. Also, he looks like a prototype of Data (Star Trek: Next Generation)
eaglesoars wrote:
Well, maybe, if Doctor Noonian Soong had taken a dump in the mold use to make the face.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/03/21/hillary-clinton-thinks-she-might-have-found-someone-else-to-blame-for-her-loss/
@ Twitchy
Good morning. Hillary keeps blaming everything in sight for her loss except herself.
What is the over and under on Climate Change being blamed?
@ RIX:
That interview was recorded in 2016 and she knew about Cambridge Analytica then? hunh.
This part, tho, is risable.
Clinton continued: āSo if they were getting advice from, letās say, Cambridge Analytica or someone else about, āOK, here are the 12 voters in this town in Wisconsin ā thatās whose Facebook pages you need to be on to send these messages,ā that indeed would be very disturbing.ā
No it wouldn’t. Also, it’s not like she talked to ANY voters in Wisconsin, so she’s behind the curve already.
doriangrey wrote:
well, prototype, so ya never know.
My brain did another ‘hey what if’ facial thing re: David Hogg, the Parkland ‘survivor’ who’s been strutting his skinny ass and big mouth all over the place.
Goebbels looked just like him when he was that age.
@ eaglesoars:
Hillary ran a campaign based on her entitlement to the office, you know her turn.
She ran a lazy poor campaign. Nobody made her stay out of places like Wisconsin or made her
insult half of the country with her deplorable and irredeemable comment. She was a bad candidate and
corruption oozes out of her.
eaglesoars wrote:
Probably acted just like him as well.
@ doriangrey:
I’m betting Goebbels had more charm.
gotta go, the day impends. Later.
Incoming…. duck cw…
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/976819433078272000
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/976820741516611584
They’ve released the dashcam from that horrific Uber self-driving car incident. It looks VERY bad for Uber, since the “safety driver” was not even remotely looking at the road until the moment of impact.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2018/03/22/police-release-uber-dashcam-video-of-fatal-crash-and-its-bad-for-uber-the-safety-driver-and-the-tempe-police-chief/
NBC News just broke into programming (and the Judge Judy my dog was watching while we were at work) to tell me that the stock market crashed 700 points TODAY over Trump’s tariffs announced WEEKS AGO. “And Facebook mumble, mumble…”
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
OH, there’s something new I guess.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
ah, but he actually SIGNED it today, dontchaknow.
So I heard on the radio that CitiBank is no longer going to allow its cards to be used to purchase guns if the buyer is under 21. Even if the store allows it. Basically, telling consumers AND retailers what they can purchase.
So who has standing to sue? Consumer, retailer,both?
Also, Trump’s lawyer Dowd walked out the door. I don’t know why, not willing yet to give credence to any explanation I read. But it IS good he brought DeGenova on board because HE will go on CNN/MSNBC and kick Mueller’s ass into next week.
United fucks up again. With the MILITARY, no less.
How stupid do you have to be to run a multi-billion dollar company?
Military families on Guam moving to the U.S. mainland may be forced to leave their pets behind, following United Airlinesā decision to suspend its pet transportation program until no later than May 1, following multiple delivery mistakes and at least one pet death.
United is the only carrier flying directly between the island and the mainland U.S., according to families there, some of whom took to social media Wednesday to say they felt blindsided by Unitedās announcement.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/379183-military-family-pets-in-guam-stranded-as-united-airlines-suspends-shipments/
HA! McMaster out, Bolton in
eaglesoars wrote:
Citi Statement
Announcing Our U.S. Commercial Firearms Policy
Under this new policy, we will require new retail sector clients or partners to adhere to these best practices: (1) they donāt sell firearms to someone who hasnāt passed a background check, (2) they restrict the sale of firearms for individuals under 21 years of age, and (3) they donāt sell bump stocks or high-capacity magazines. This policy will apply across the firm, including to small business, commercial and institutional clients, as well as credit card partners, whether co-brand or private label. It doesn’t impact the ability of consumers to use their Citi cards at merchants of their choice.
https://blog.citigroup.com/2018/03/announcing-our-us-commercial-firearms-policy
eaglesoars wrote:
I hope that the military will allow competition on the Guam route. BUT not that old time operator Continental. They had so many really dangerous and operationally shonky issues. The whole of the Pacific operators used to give Continental operators ‘extra space by off-setting tracks and adding a couple of hundred feet to altitudes to give us more chance of not having a mid air collision with some Continental ‘cowboys’ flying at the wrong altitudes to save fuel. Those bastards were lethal.
One night a dispatch engineer in Auckland refused to sigh off a Continental aircraft because he discovered that the floor of a rear toilet had been replaced by a piece of plywood and the structural members were corroded by the blue toilet flush that was leaking everywhere and for a loooong time in the aircraft’s rear structure. Continental got a tame Senator to pressure the FAA to allow the aircraft to return to the US without getting an engineering clearance but with a full load of passengers aboard as well !
That is criminal !
eaglesoars wrote:
Fantastic news.
Chris Liddel is the new Deputy Chief . I’m not sure of his credentials as he appears to be a typical establishment type. An old by of Mt. Albert Grammar School here in Auckland. One of six kids brought up by a widowed mother. I know his brother very well. He’s a major and 2IC of an infantry Battalion in NZ. Good guy and a great family that pulled themselves up with their own boot-straps. But Chris Liddel has held the top appointments of major international companies and may have caught the elitist infection. Just be careful of him until he proves himself
right_wing2 wrote:
I Never allow the left to call it that.
I have Global warming around their necks to ensure that they never forget that fuck up!
Obambi is lunching on Waiheke Island and flies out this evening.
Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out arsehole.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I assume he’s there by Bolton’s wish.
Given the departures of Cohn, Tillerson, Dowd and now McMaster – and looking at who is replacing them – my sense is that Trump is going to the mattresses on the Norks, Iran, and Mueller
Aussie Infidel wrote:
too bad the door isn’t an emergency exit behind the wing
what the actual fuck?
Guccifer 2.0, the ālone hackerā who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee, was in fact an officer of Russiaās military intelligence directorate (GRU), The Daily Beast has learned. Itās an attribution that resulted from a fleeting but critical slip-up in GRU tradecraft.
That forensic determination has substantial implications for the criminal probe into potential collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia. The Daily Beast has learned that the special counsel in that investigation, Robert Mueller, has taken over the probe into Guccifer and brought the FBI agents who worked to track the persona onto his team.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-lone-dnc-hacker-guccifer-20-slipped-up-and-revealed-he-was-a-russian-intelligence-officer
What the hell are Republicans thinking with this budget? If Pelosi and Schumer like it, itās got to be crap.
@ eaglesoars:
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/976962660628553728
eaglesoars wrote:
He just took over as Deputy Chief of Staff last week when he was passed over by Trump as the Chief Economic Advisor. You could feel the tension in the air between Kelly and Trump and it was only a mater of time!
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eaglesoars wrote:
…. Trump is going to the mattresses on the Norks, Iran, and Mueller …. I sure hope that you’re right.
WE do live in interesting times.
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Too interesting on occasion!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Ijust realized…that whole ‘staff told Trump not to congratulate Putin’ thing that go so conveniently leaked. Then reports said Trump never saw that.
Remember early in the admin when some Oval mtg was leaked that insisted Trump revealed classified info to the Russians? McMaster was one of the very few people who could have leaked it. It was a lie, btw.
So I wonder…Trump ignored staff instructions to not congratulate Putin story – never was true but WAS bait to see who leaked. McMaster.
anyway, just a thought.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
New National Security director is John “The STASH” Bolton. “Interesting” might not be the right descriptive word for when we are living.
doriangrey wrote:
The NORKS are redefining the term right about now.
doriangrey wrote:
And fortunately, that’s not a position the Senate gets any say on.
@ lobo91:
Billy Bob? Bubba? Mohammad? Tyrone?
@ right_wing2:
That doesn’t sound like a very well thought out approach to a terrorist attack against a military base.
I’m guessing ‘Chelsea’
eaglesoars wrote:
Umm, 1), 2), and [especoially]3) directly contradict that statement.
@ AZfederalist:
It’s a restriction on businesses that Citibank does business with, not on cardholders.
right_wing2 wrote:
Jedediah
right_wing2 wrote:
Dang it! the blog pasted the wrong thing:
Jedediah
eaglesoars wrote:
… as in “#wegotthis”?
lobo91 wrote:
If I’m a cardholder, legally over 18 and go into one of those stores to purchase a rifle or a 30 round magazine for my AR and want to pay for it with my Costco Citibank card, it darned well is a restriction on me.
AZfederalist wrote:
I rather doubt that many businesses are going to let Citibank tell them what to sell, so it will be moot. They’ll just switch banks
lobo91 wrote:
No Omnibus bill until all the appointments to the Trump staff have been passed.
Decouple the Defence appropriations from the bill and debate it separately.
Likewise other security related bills that protect the core of the State.
re-impose the 50% +1 requirement to pass these bills just as the Dems did in the other house.
Fight fire with fire.
lobo91 wrote:
The card holders are the ones at the end of the transaction line however.
If business wants to dabble in politics then they will find pretty quickly that they are only servicing 50 % of the population which in turnover terms means they go out of business or are forced to retrench and downsize which opens the market for more agile non-political competitors to enter the marketplace.
Smells like suicide on Citibank’s behalf. Maybe they should have been left to die in the ditch back in 2008 by the taxpayers.
SPIT !
eaglesoars wrote:
… and it appears that Citibank is “moderating” the comments. Guess they got too many negative comments before they stepped in. They aren’t moderating up-votes though
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/976990297405063168
lobo91 wrote:
From the statement: This policy will apply across the firm, including to small business, commercial and institutional clients, as well as credit card partners, whether co-brand or private label.
My assumption was that a “credit card partner” includes merchants accepting those cards. If not, then I’m using my Costco Citibank card everytime I go into Sportsman’s Warehouse to buy standard AR magazines.
@ doriangrey:
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/976993313998848000
Loyola of Chicago just beat Nevada 69 to 68! they have won three tournament games by a total of four points.
This is surreal, Loyola is going to the Elite Eight. They are rockin this town
AZfederalist wrote:
I don’t give a flying fuck one way or the other. Where does it stop? Tobacco products? Sodas? Fossil fuels? Products from Israel?
My next payment will be my last.
doriangrey wrote:
dammit! I NEVER get to see the good stuff.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/03/22/good-talk-david-hogg-says-nra-are-pathetic-fkers-that-want-to-keep-killing-our-children/
@ Twitchy
Anybody else had enough of this kid?
AZfederalist wrote:
uh huh
RIX wrote:
yeah. I imagine that’s going to be true for a lot more people shortly. Don’t know if you caught it, but to me he looks like what Goebbels must have looked like when he was young.
@ RIX:
You mean… Besides the entire State of Florida who are under 18? Oh yea, he just royally pissed them off. Every school kid should wear a clear plastic back pack.
doriangrey wrote:
*snicker*
If you’re watching John Sullivan on Hannity talk about Mueller and his cover up of Putin/Uranium 1 for Obama, here’s a piece he wrote about it back in October
FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/355749-fbi-uncovered-russian-bribery-plot-before-obama-administration
And here’s another general piece on his corruption
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/28555-probing-mueller-what-were-his-roles-in-boston-mafia-murders-uranium-one-and-other-fbi-scandals
eaglesoars wrote:
That is a good observation. He is a creepy little demogouge
doriangrey wrote:
Right, how do you hide your weed?
Good night all.
nite rix
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/977008788686303232
@ doriangrey:
is anybody else seeing this or did you just get lucky (I’m not doubting you, it would be nice to hear what others see)
watch the video on this and tell me it’s not l’enfant Goebbels
https://www.weaselzippers.us/379326-parklands-david-hogg-promises-to-oppose-pro-gun-democrats/
and….I’m out. sleep well, tomorrow’s weather is going to suck again, I suggest you all do what I did and get a puppy.
RIX wrote:
Like about the first time he was featured on TV
eaglesoars wrote:
I do not really know. I mean, nobody else here at my house saw it. I called them out to see it, but by the time they got outside all that was left was the weird tunnel in the clouds.
morning y’all
so today is the last day of my job…
cause I got a promotion and a raise.
start my NEW job on sunday
automotive dept mgr
thus the new gravitar š
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/03/22/giddy-up-doj-admits-they-have-a-grand-jury-empaneled-in-fbi-and-doj-investigation/
rain of lead wrote:
all hail, Caesar!
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I have an interview tomorrow at Royal Caribbeanās call center. It pays a bit more than Iām making now. On Monday I have the big interview at the power company for their call center, which pays a lot more. The RC job could start as early as 4/9, no idea on the other one.
Debating if I get offered the job with RC, and it starts 4/2, if itās fair to them to suddenly back out if the power company job comes through.
Possible interview today at the current company, too.
right_wing2 wrote:
yes, happens all the time.
Good morning. Trump is now threatening to veto the Omnibus Bill. Do it
right_wing2 wrote:
I’ve been responsible for staffing teams and believe me, it happens. If possible, I’d come up with a counter-offer to keep the person if they were that good, if not, life goes on. Everybody understands the first responsibility is to family and the career that supports it. ‘Fair’ is a luxury. Good luck, no guilt.
rain of lead wrote:
but no idea what the grand jury is actually about, is there?
RIX wrote:
Time Magazine’s cover this week is of the Famewhore Four + 1 with the legend “ENOUGH” written across it.
The irony was not lost on Twitter.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2018/03/23/trump-threatens-veto-of-1-3-trillion-spending-bill-to-address-daca/
@ Twitchy
Will he do it?
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
Obviously they have no sense of irony. That David Hogg is one nasty little nose bleed.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
here’s a pic
https://subscription.time.com/storefront/subscribe-to-time/site/td-flswp1116-template.html?utm_medium=paid&utm_source=bing.com&utm_campaign=cmr-time&link=1045076&fpa_oc=TD+1217+AA+Test
@ RIX:
And he makes the mistake that all narcissic attention junkies make. And that is working overtime to make sure he stays in the public eye, upping the ante each time. Now he’s an apparent expert on disenfranchised voters, making a silly speech about how Voter ID is wrong. Except in this one he doesn’t have the crowd. A healthy majority of the country SUPPORTS needing an ID to vote. Yeah, he’s done. They couldn’t even get TV time after the MD shooting, although I’m sure they waited by the phones all day.
RIX wrote:
I love the way he nailed the Dems on ‘abandoning’ the Dreamers and grabbed the high ground on that one
eaglesoars wrote:
And Today is National Puppy Day!
So … NO excuses!
RIX wrote:
Does House have enough votes to override, though?
oh jeez. The girl who was shot at the Maryland high school is being taken off life support
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Mother of Maryland high school shooting victim, 16, who was gunned down by jilted ex reveals her daughter is ‘brain dead’ and will be taken off life support
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5533859/Wounded-teen-fights-life-despite-Facebook-message.html
Apparently the situation in France is over, ISIS bad guy dead.
Police storm French supermarket and shoot dead ISIS gunman who was holding hostages as it emerges he had killed a person before beginning his siege, where he killed two of his captives
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5535755/Shooting-hostage-taking-supermarket-south-France.html
@ eaglesoars:
My heart breaks for her.
@ eaglesoars:
This would be France – land of serious GUN CONTROL?
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
mais oui!
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
I just heard she died shortly before midnite last nite after life support was removed.
Fed budget needs to be expressed as % of gdp.
Debt also has to be expressed in % of GDP.
Wages have to be expressed in a base year dollars, as do prices.
Tax revenue may be expressed in base year dollars OR % of gdp.
There is some sloppy-assed econ reporting going on both left and right.
Propaganda
This is so full of cognitive dissonance.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5532631/Clintons-one-way-open-marriage-pollster-says.html
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
A puppy? Along with all the cats?! Dear God mass chaos.
@ coldwarrior:
Inflation should include food prices.
coldwarrior wrote:
It’s Mark Penn. Anyone who hitches his wagon to the Clintons is not going to be the definition of ‘clarity’.
right_wing2 wrote:
well yeah, that’s kinda the point. People who are into tidy houses and quiet shouldn’t be around dogs. Mine wreck the house twice a day and for all the chews I bring home, there’s an astonishing amount of shredded cardboard, newspaper around and bathroom doors are closed because she figured out the toilet paper trick (I have pictures)
right_wing2 wrote:
https://inflationdata.com/articles/2008/02/24/what-is-core-inflation-and-why-doesnt-it-include-food-and-energy/
its a pretty good explaination
@ RIX:
If he doesnāt get a wall and jobs he should veto. Iām ok with rubber stamping this year if next year he puts an end to pc bs. Little worried about the midterms. But Iā ll stand by Trump.
@ eaglesoars:
This is why I always adopt older dogs. They don’t have time for the toilet paper trick because they’re too busy drinking out of the commode. Plus I like my shoes in pairs….not one good one and one chew toy.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
I give ’em up for Lent
I’m reading/listening about this budget bill and wondering where the hell Ryan et al were? Nancy Pelosi wrote it, it sounds like and the crowing coming from the Dem side is embarrassing.
I’m confused. To say the least.
@ eaglesoars:
Limbaugh posited that the whole thing is to discredit Trump, a way of showing he can’t change anything and has to real power in DC.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
yeah and it looks like the Rs just stood there with their dicks in their hands and let it happen
Trump news conf 1pm
AP & CNN reporting he will sign the bill
I am gobsmacked
@ eaglesoars:
There was a Republican operative on just now. Unless I misunderstood he claimed that Trump should sign the bill,
because then the pressure will be on Congress.
he’s using the military funding as an excuse for signing
@ RIX:
@ eaglesoars:
lets see how this plays out over the next few weeks.
eaglesoars wrote:
Saw this coming, that is why he had lunch with Mattis. He should have vetoed this theft of the taxpayers.
This is really disappointing.
coldwarrior wrote:
Hate to say it , but the corrupt plutocrats ate Trumps lunch and you know that they are enjoying this.
coldwarrior wrote:
I hear what you’re saying but I’m not sanguine. The media are already portraying him as ‘weak’ and they’ve got ammo.
Trump said, āI will never sign another bill like this again ā
Well ok then./
rush is saying the bill give money for 33 miles of wall in Texas but specifies none of it may be built according to the prototypes
this is ridiculous
Trump could have vetoed the bill, insisted on the cuts he wanted and used that for some of the military
He got NOTHING. Dave Bratt said the Senate put in the bill that they won’t be doing another budget next year
So Paul Ryan’s excuse that “it’s only 6 mos.” is a lie.
Tell me how Trump didn’t get rolled
If Twitter is any indication, Trump supporters are PISSED.
This is going to be the election of 2006 all over again come November.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
I had a 2:30 mtg so I didn’t get to hear all of Rush but from what I heard, it’s pitchforks and torches.
I am not among them. Trump has done an enormous amount of good and god knows we’ve been thru worse. And we’ll get A LOT worse if we quit now.
For me the wall has to be built. Otherwise the politically correct side wins. I would just have the military build it. Add in machine gun towers to piss off liberals.
@ eaglesoars:
What stuns me are the Jeff Flakes and the Paul Ryans. I think they are twisted people trying to project a holy wholesome image.
@ eaglesoars:
I live in John Garamendi’s District so there’s no way that POS doesn’t get re-elected – and under our skewed primary system, he’ll win nomination easily. But I will be curious in the districts that matter if RINOS get primaried out and fiscal conservatives put in their place.
You’re right – we have a long way to go.
@ darkwords:
Jeff Flake doesn’t surprise me in the least. Paul Ryan needs to be kicked to the curb.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
RINOS are what the GOPe produce and protect. So the answer is no.
I think the more interesting/important fight will be on the Hill among the Jim Jordan/Dave Bratt crew and the Ryan/McConnell imbedded crooks.
Just a loose thought rattling around: this military funding thing. I know it’s been neglected for too long but I’m wondering if there’s some urgency we’re not aware of that Mattis, et.al., are. And that put the fear of the Almighty into Trump to get this ball rolling now because we’re going to need this military sooner than we’d like.
@ eaglesoars:
I saw a blurb that Mattis went to see Trump this a.m.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
may be nothing. just to go over the remarks Mattis would make this afternoon. who knows.
Trump is a fighter. He’s picked a fight, I just don’t know which one it is.
@ eaglesoars:
Cats arenāt any better. Weāre constantly cleaning up some mess or other. One drags laundry up from the basement. But itās worth it.
right_wing2 wrote:
Well,if it’s clean, you’re halfway there!
Attacker identified in last night’s terror attempt at Travis AFB. 51-eyar old 51-year-old Hafiz Kazi.
http://abc7news.com/3
Oh and I’ll be claiming the title of SURVIVOR, even though I was five miles away and not in any danger….
@ eaglesoars:
It is! Heāll pull a sock from between the slats of a hamper. Weird cat has brought up socks, rags, shorts, golf shirts and his record was Mrs MFās sweater. Heāll āserenadeā us while he does it, too. We nicknamed him āoddboyā.
new thread.
rain of lead wrote:
Well, congratulations
eaglesoars wrote:
Why, that is impossible. France has strict gun control laws. The kind of laws David Hogg and the other idiots want here. No way could an ISIS terrorist have gotten a gun in France. /s