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Saturday Salt Mine Open

by coldwarrior ( 122 Comments › )
Filed under Open thread at May 12th, 2018 - 1:12 pm

I’m in the Salt Mine…send me some hot wings and a cold 6 pack! STAT!!!

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  1. lobo91
    1 | May 12, 2018 2:03 pm

    Jason Osborne

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    So John Kerry just left a meeting @ L’Avenue in Paris w/3 Iranians. A friend was sitting next to their table and heard JK blasting @realDonaldTrump. The Iranians had a 5 person security detail and left in diplomatic vehicles. Is he FARA registered?


  2. eaglesoars
    2 | May 12, 2018 2:38 pm

    @ lobo91:

    I don’t know why I think this but – there are family connections to an Iranian or Iranians? A daughter married to someone? I can’t remember. Or maybe I’m mis-remembering


  3. 3 | May 12, 2018 2:49 pm

    Terminal Irony Alert:

    New York’s Bloomingidiot rants about Mordor on the Potomac’s culture of political dishonesty. As the old saying goes, physician heal thyself.


  4. Deplorable Martian Overlord
    5 | May 12, 2018 3:04 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ lobo91:

    I don’t know why I think this but – there are family connections to an Iranian or Iranians? A daughter married to someone? I can’t remember. Or maybe I’m mis-remembering

    If you can believe Snopes that info is incorrect. Apparently his son in law’s parents were Iranian born. But, allegedly they have no connections to anyone in power in Iran.


  5. 6 | May 12, 2018 3:09 pm

    Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:

    If you can believe Snopes

    Since when can you believe Snopes? Its pure Democrat propaganda.


  6. eaglesoars
    7 | May 12, 2018 3:19 pm

    @ Deplorable Martian Overlord:

    ok, just checked. He’s American born, Iranian descent. My oral surgeon has an Indian name but the guy was born and raised in Philly. He’s an American.


  7. Deplorable Martian Overlord
    8 | May 12, 2018 3:38 pm

    doriangrey wrote:

    Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:

    If you can believe Snopes

    Since when can you believe Snopes? Its pure Democrat propaganda.

    That’s true. Unfortunately they were the only ones I could find that had the info. If I didn’t have this headache I might have been able to find better info.


  8. Deplorable Martian Overlord
    9 | May 12, 2018 3:39 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ Deplorable Martian Overlord:

    ok, just checked. He’s American born, Iranian descent. My oral surgeon has an Indian name but the guy was born and raised in Philly. He’s an American.

    Unless you consider American more of a state of mind than a place of birth. In that case JK is not an American. Lol.


  9. Possum
    10 | May 12, 2018 5:42 pm

    Hey “African American” activists and community leaders.

    Recognize there is a serious problem in our society.

    Young “African Americans”

    Message to the “African American” community.

    DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, OR WE WILL…..

    Background, I no longer visit or buy anything from a local store because I am sick and tired of being “soft mugged” by a black person wanting money…. and I can see there are three more black persons near by just watching.

    Yeah so it only costs me $5 or $10 to get away,

    No longer will I shop at that store.


  10. 11 | May 12, 2018 5:56 pm

    5 minutes to launch…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3niFzo5VLI


  11. Deplorable Martian Overlord
    12 | May 12, 2018 6:07 pm

    Well, too broke for cigars this week so far. Drug out my pipes and my meerschaum is missing, dang it. Looks like I’ll be trying out the heavily used vintage briar I picked up at an estate sale a couple years ago. Cleaned it up really nice, slapped a different stem on it, and think I’ll give it a shot, should be beautifully seasoned.


  12. 13 | May 12, 2018 6:16 pm

    Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:

    I’ll be trying out the heavily used vintage briar

    I have a nice London Briar that I bought new some 25 odd years ago, it now needs a new stem. One of these days I might even get around to getting it one.


  13. 14 | May 12, 2018 6:20 pm

    doriangrey wrote:

    I bought new some 25 odd years ago

    Hmmm, just noticed how odd that looks. Well, not odd to any of you, but odd to me to be thinking about the fact I have had this pipe for 25 years. Aside from a couple of my old leather jackets and a pair of boots, I don’t think I have anything else that I have had for that long.


  14. rain of lead
    15 | May 12, 2018 9:13 pm

    hey y’all
    posting from the hotel after the archery tournament
    after they finished she thought her score was a 278 which was a new personal best but she felt like there was a mistake, she thought that was too high.

    she was right, there was a mistake
    she shot 282

    she now has a national ranking

    her overall girls (elementary, middle and high school)rank is 350 out of 6689
    her rank among high school girls is 221 out of 2393
    and her rank among 9th grade girls is 64th out of 749

    and to think she was shooting 220 at the start of the year


  15. AZfederalist
    16 | May 12, 2018 9:15 pm

    doriangrey wrote:

    Hmmm, just noticed how odd that looks. Well, not odd to any of you, but odd to me to be thinking about the fact I have had this pipe for 25 years.

    No, what’s odd to me is that I now think about something that happened 25 or 30 years ago and I participated in it. I am going on 36 years this year with the same company (sort of, our division was bought about 20 years ago, so the name changed, but that’s about it). When I think about these things, I realize that someone thinking the same thoughts when I got out of school would have been referencing time in the early 50’s. Actually, someone with the level of experience I have now would have started working shortly after WWII ended.

    I’m not sure if these thoughts are disturbing or merely observations.


  16. AZfederalist
    17 | May 12, 2018 9:22 pm

    doriangrey wrote:

    5 minutes to launch…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3niFzo5VLI

    Quite cool


  17. 18 | May 12, 2018 9:22 pm

    @ rain of lead:
    And she’s been shooting how long?


  18. 19 | May 12, 2018 9:26 pm

    Challenge for tomorrow- a guy who does some work for us sometimes is a pastor. When we had to replace our fridge a few months ago, Mrs. RW said she’d go to his church if he helped us move the old one out & the new one in. He took her up on it. So we’re going to his church tomorrow.

    Prayers that God will convict her that she needs Him. She’s not a believer at all- she’s a ‘Once you die, that’s all folks’.

    Knowing Will, I have a feeling he’s going to aim a sermon straight at her. I don’t know anything about his church or his preaching style. I think it’s going to be a bit more Charismatic than I’m used to, but I know they’ve done mission trips & work with helping the homeless downtown. It could be interesting…


  19. rain of lead
    20 | May 12, 2018 9:27 pm

    @ right_wing2:

    since september


  20. AZfederalist
    21 | May 12, 2018 9:29 pm

    @ rain of lead:

    That is fantastically awesome! Congratulations to her!


  21. eaglesoars
    22 | May 12, 2018 9:50 pm

    right_wing2 wrote:

    he’s going to aim a sermon straight at her.

    I wonder if taking in stray animals will be in there

    doriangrey wrote:

    I have had this pipe for 25 years.

    I’ve had the same husband for almost 26 years. Stem is still good

    rain of lead wrote:

    and to think she was shooting 220 at the start of the year

    Olympics in her future


  22. 23 | May 12, 2018 9:58 pm

    Under California’s ‘Open Primary’, the final race could be between DiFi and anti-Semite Patrick Little.
    http://littlerevolution.us/

    Dear God, what a horrible choice. Republicans need to unite to stop this piece of crap from being one of the candidates come November.


  23. 24 | May 12, 2018 10:01 pm

    @ rain of lead:
    Damn. She’s a natural!

    Yeah, I can see her shooting at the Olympics in a few years.

    eaglesoars wrote:

    right_wing2 wrote:

    he’s going to aim a sermon straight at her.

    I wonder if taking in stray animals will be in there

    If there are, we’d probably bring it home with us. 😀


  24. eaglesoars
    25 | May 12, 2018 11:20 pm

    When you don’t understand how blackmail works.

    H.J.Ansari Zarif’s senior advisor: “If Europeans stop trading with Iran and don’t put pressure on US then we will reveal which western politicians and how much money they had received during nuclear negotiations to make #IranDeal happen.”

    https://twitter.com/Raman_Ghavami/status/993932711315329025


  25. eaglesoars
    26 | May 12, 2018 11:25 pm

    he needs to be disbarred and fined into lifetime penury

    Mueller Indicted A Russian Company That Didn’t Even Exist,

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/30556/disaster-mueller-indicted-russian-company-didnt-ryan-saavedra


  26. Deplorable Bumr50
    27 | May 13, 2018 12:01 am

    My job interview is Thursday, and I’m nervous.

    I HATE being nervous.

    My old man did a lot of business with this corp, and one of his best friend’s daughters turned me on to the opportunity. They paid for my young life in a lot of ways.

    I’ve never been this nervous for an interview. Usually I’m like “Fuck em’ if they don’t want me.”

    Also uncomfortable accepting “somebody knows somebody” help.

    I know it’s STUPID.


  27. 28 | May 13, 2018 12:03 am

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:
    Good luck.


  28. eaglesoars
    29 | May 13, 2018 12:18 am

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    I know it’s STUPID.

    but entirely understandable. You’re carrying more than ‘just you’ into that and you want to do right by it. It’s not stupid, it’s honorable.


  29. eaglesoars
    30 | May 13, 2018 12:19 am

    and I am going to bed.

    Did I ever mention that whoever had the bright idea to get a puppy needs to get over here and clean up this mess?

    nite.


  30. 31 | May 13, 2018 7:23 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    and I am going to bed.

    Did I ever mention that whoever had the bright idea to get a puppy needs to get over here and clean up this mess?

    nite.

    Don’t look at me, the only pets I have are rocks. They don’t make messes, don’t have to be fed, never have to go out or to the vet and don’t attack the mailman.


  31. RIX
    32 | May 13, 2018 9:50 am

    https://www.weaselzippers.us/384687-ohio-shelter-dogs-freedom-ride-photo-goes-viral/
    @ WZ
    Good morning and Happy Mother’s Day to our mothers on the board.
    This is for all the dog lovers. We have a rescue that had heart worm too. This story rings true, our pup is grateful
    for everything. At one point I said to her, “You’re a dog, you get stuff.”


  32. eaglesoars
    33 | May 13, 2018 9:59 am

    @ RIX:

    beagles rule


  33. RIX
    34 | May 13, 2018 10:14 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ RIX:

    beagles rule

    They’re good dogs.


  34. 35 | May 13, 2018 10:19 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ RIX:

    beagles rule

    This aside from their monumental failure to get the Red Baron I presume.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTTDHHkQSFY


  35. lobo91
    36 | May 13, 2018 11:09 am

    Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can’t.

    Researchers can now send secret audio instructions undetectable to the human ear to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant.

    Many people have grown accustomed to talking to their smart devices, asking them to read a text, play a song or set an alarm. But someone else might be secretly talking to them, too.

    Over the last two years, researchers in China and the United States have begun demonstrating that they can send hidden commands that are undetectable to the human ear to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant. Inside university labs, the researchers have been able to secretly activate the artificial intelligence systems on smartphones and smart speakers, making them dial phone numbers or open websites. In the wrong hands, the technology could be used to unlock doors, wire money or buy stuff online — simply with music playing over the radio.

    A group of students from University of California, Berkeley, and Georgetown University showed in 2016 that they could hide commands in white noise played over loudspeakers and through YouTube videos to get smart devices to turn on airplane mode or open a website.

    This month, some of those Berkeley researchers published a research paper that went further, saying they could embed commands directly into recordings of music or spoken text. So while a human listener hears someone talking or an orchestra playing, Amazon’s Echo speaker might hear an instruction to add something to your shopping list.

    “We wanted to see if we could make it even more stealthy,” said Nicholas Carlini, a fifth-year Ph.D. student in computer security at U.C. Berkeley and one of the paper’s authors.

    Mr. Carlini added that while there was no evidence that these techniques have left the lab, it may only be a matter of time before someone starts exploiting them. “My assumption is that the malicious people already employ people to do what I do,” he said.


  36. lobo91
    37 | May 13, 2018 11:15 am


  37. Deplorable Bumr50
    38 | May 13, 2018 12:26 pm

    @ lobo91:

    Well that’s just wrong.


  38. AZfederalist
    39 | May 13, 2018 12:42 pm

    @ lobo91:

    Wonderful. OTOH, it’s good that this threat is being identified now rather than when we’ve become totally dependent upon these devices.

    Oh. Wait.


  39. 40 | May 13, 2018 1:03 pm

    AZfederalist wrote:

    Oh. Wait.

    Big Google is not amused with your comment.


  40. eaglesoars
    41 | May 13, 2018 2:59 pm

    My sister texted me. She was was watching Good Morning America and the correct answer to the trivia question was “The Manhattan Project”. One anchor says to the other “Did that really happen?” and the other anchor says “I don’t know, never heard of it”

    Doomed. We. Are. Doomed.


  41. Deplorable Bumr50
    42 | May 13, 2018 3:02 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    I think they both might have been confusing it with the “Philadelphia Experiment.”

    Not that it excuses them…


  42. eaglesoars
    43 | May 13, 2018 3:32 pm

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:

    I assume the phrase ‘atomic bomb’ was in the question and I don’t know how you get the Philadelphia Experiment out of that


  43. eaglesoars
    44 | May 13, 2018 3:51 pm

    Until recently, I thought he was just naive. Actually, he’s just another NWO POS

    BREAKING: Former President George W. Bush slams ‘isolation’ following President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran deal, after being silent while his successor Barack Obama oversaw the birth of ISIS and unleashed the IRS against conservatives

    https://twitter.com/WiredSources/status/995682710420156416


  44. Deplorable Bumr50
    45 | May 13, 2018 3:57 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    His family legacy is NWO globalism.

    Bad times at Skull and Bones.


  45. eaglesoars
    46 | May 13, 2018 4:00 pm

    In January 2018, #Avenatti got an unidentified source of income that allowed him to pay $4.85M to his law firm employees he defrauded, close to $2M in back taxes for payroll taxes on his law firm, and near another $1M to other creditors. Same time as: new client #StormyDaniels.

    https://twitter.com/Barnes_Law/status/995741920973357056


  46. rain of lead
    47 | May 13, 2018 4:04 pm

    hey y’all
    well the girl and I are home safe
    this was a fun weekend


  47. 48 | May 13, 2018 4:15 pm

    @ right_wing2:
    Okay this is funny. We actually did make it to church. It’s in the guy’s home, just a handful of people there. Pastor Will’s youngest, 3-4 probably, is carrying around this stuffed black & white dog. Before the service started she gave it to Mrs. RW.

    Interesting service. It was a lot like I expected- very charismatic and very different from what I’m used to. Just a guess, but I’d bet most of the people there (including Will) have struggled with some kind of addiction or another.

    Good service, on part of the Sermon on the Mount, Matt 5:8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.’ At the end of the service, Will asked her if she believed, and she said ‘Kind of’, he asked if she’d pray with him to accept Christ and she did! Now, the sincerity is between her & God, but at least she prayed with him. I hope she meant every word of it.


  48. Deplorable Bumr50
    49 | May 13, 2018 9:25 pm

    @ right_wing2:

    I hope she did too.

    I enjoy going to different places of worship.

    I’m a Catholic married to a Methodist, and I generally prefer my services to be more staid and contemplative, but I find it very interesting and uplifting.

    I’ve said this before, but my wife is the daughter of Salvation Army officers (retired now) and currently works for them as a bookkeeper. They have their own places of worship. They’re largely in, er, economically challenged areas.

    But because it’s the Salvation Army, I’ve seen some incredible people in challenging circumstances come to worship Jesus Christ as best they can, by whatever means necessary.

    I’ve also struggled with addiction, and maintain that it was faith that pulled me through. Not 12-step meetings (although they work for many people).


  49. 50 | May 13, 2018 9:37 pm

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:
    After my ex & I broke up, I had some problems with alcohol. Never to the point I couldn’t go to work, but bad enough. I’d have a couple beers every night, and on Friday (if I didn’t work Sat) and every Saturday night I’d get drunk on some of the nastiest mixes you could imagine.

    Will’s church has done some overseas missions, they work with the homeless downtown, and they’ve got a prison ministry too. Great place for people who are broken & recognize it.

    I’ll see if she’d be willing to go back here in a month or so. She’s stubborn- she’ll push back and get very crabby if you push things.

    This little girl came back in as we were singing at the beginning of service, crying her eyes out. And she went straight to Mrs RW. Dad picked her up, but it’s still funny since we’d met her not 15 minutes before. Kids & critters can sense things.


  50. RIX
    51 | May 13, 2018 9:38 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Until recently, I thought he was just naive. Actually, he’s just another NWO POS

    BREAKING: Former President George W. Bush slams ‘isolation’ following President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran deal, after being silent while his successor Barack Obama oversaw the birth of ISIS and unleashed the IRS against conservatives

    https://twitter.com/WiredSources/status/995682710420156416

    The Bush family just needs to go away. I never thought that W was a great president, but I thought that he was a good
    guy. Now I do not have that opinion.


  51. coldwarrior
    52 | May 13, 2018 9:39 pm

    Perdomo Lot 23 Habano, Don Julio neat.


  52. coldwarrior
    53 | May 13, 2018 9:41 pm

    rain of lead wrote:

    hey y’all
    posting from the hotel after the archery tournament
    after they finished she thought her score was a 278 which was a new personal best but she felt like there was a mistake, she thought that was too high.

    she was right, there was a mistake
    she shot 282

    she now has a national ranking

    her overall girls (elementary, middle and high school)rank is 350 out of 6689
    her rank among high school girls is 221 out of 2393
    and her rank among 9th grade girls is 64th out of 749

    and to think she was shooting 220 at the start of the year

    Holy Crap! Nice work!


  53. 54 | May 13, 2018 11:48 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    My sister texted me. She was was watching Good Morning America and the correct answer to the trivia question was “The Manhattan Project”. One anchor says to the other “Did that really happen?” and the other anchor says “I don’t know, never heard of it”

    Doomed. We. Are. Doomed.

    Perhaps President Trump should SUMMON those “anchors” to The Trinity Site! To the McDonald Ranch House! To Jumbo! To the GD REAL Ground Zero!


  54. eaglesoars
    55 | May 14, 2018 8:00 am

    I think Fox is going to show the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem at around 9 am.

    18 Palis have martyred themselves with stupid protests.


  55. 56 | May 14, 2018 8:34 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    18 Palis have martyred themselves with stupid protests.

    The Fakenstianians amount to nothing less than a gang or murderers who broke into someones house, murdered several family members and held on to the house for awhile. When the family broke out of their bedrooms and forced the gang out of the living-room and out onto the front lawn the murderers bitterly insist that the house be returned to them because they stole it fair and square.

    Fuck the Fakensianians, they can all go to hell.


  56. eaglesoars
    57 | May 14, 2018 8:37 am

    doriangrey wrote:

    they can all go to hell.

    I’m pretty sure they did that already

    You know it’s over when the Saudis tell them to give it up


  57. eaglesoars
    58 | May 14, 2018 8:51 am

    I keep seeing declarative sentences such as “When Iranian sanctions start taking effect, Turkey’s economy will take a hit”.

    Can someone explain the connection(s) to me? I don’t know what the relationships are.


  58. 59 | May 14, 2018 9:08 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    You know it’s over when the Saudis tell them to give it up

    In Islam, it is perfectly acceptable, encouraged even, for Muslims to lie to infidels. What the Saudi’s say in public to us probably is not what they are saying in private to the Fakenstianians. That’s just how Muslims are.

    If you cannot accept or understand that Muslims lie to infidels as a normal and accepted part of Islam, you will never understand the conflict between Islam and the entire rest of the world.

    The roots of Islam literally are murder, theft and deceit. Nothing has changed about Islam since Mohammad murdered the caravan owner of the caravan his father was a dung collector in, blackmailed the owners wife into marrying him and then ran it into the ground because Mohammad was an illiterate ruthless cowardly murderer. Yes, cowardly, he poisoned the caravan owner.

    Once he had run the caravan into the ground because he had no comprehension of how to run a business, he transformed what remained of one of the most successful caravans in the entire Silk road trading world into the mythical “Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves” a group of murdering cutthroat bandits.

    It was only when the residents of Medina used dogs to track Mohammad down that he came up with his infamous “Prophet” act. Like the Christian “Satan” Mohammad was a murderer and a thief (and a pedophile) from the very beginning.


  59. 60 | May 14, 2018 9:18 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Can someone explain the connection(s) to me? I don’t know what the relationships are.

    Turkey was caught violating the Iranian sanctions prior to Caliph Obama’s lifting them. These “Assertions” literally amount to nothing more than political propaganda to protect Iran and Turkey from the ongoing prosecution of several high level Turkish Banker’s involved in the Turkish Governments unofficial officially sanctions systemic violations of those sanctions.

    In short, Turkey got busted massively violating the sanctions, the Obama deal with Iran temporarily made that fact moot, but now it is causing a huge international stink.

    The Biggest Sanctions-Evasion Scheme in Recent History

    https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/01/iran-turkey-gold-sanctions-nuclear-zarrab-atilla/549665/

    Yesterday, Turkish banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla was found guilty in a Manhattan courtroom for a range of financial crimes. His dramatic trial revealed that tens of billions in dollars and gold moved from Turkey to Iran through a complex network of businesses, banks, and front companies.

    The trial was a long time coming. In late October of 2016, Justice Department officials paid a visit to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the Washington-based think tank where I serve as senior vice president. They wanted to talk about Reza Zarrab. A dual Iranian-Turkish national, Zarrab was the swashbuckling gold trader who had helped Iran evade sanctions with the help of Turkish banks in 2013 and 2014, yielding Iran an estimated $13 billion at the height of the efforts to thwart Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. A leaked report by prosecutors in Istanbul in March 2014 suggested that Zarrab spearheaded a second sanctions-busting scheme involving fake invoices for billions more in fictitious humanitarian shipments to Iran that were processed through Turkish banks.


  60. eaglesoars
    61 | May 14, 2018 9:18 am

    @ doriangrey:

    I’m familiar w/Taqqiya

    But without being starry-eyed about it, I think Bin Salman is serious. They’ve had it with the Iranians and they’re betting on the strong horse – the U.S.

    In general, going over all the Iranian and Saudi people I’ve known over the years, I tend to like the Iranians better as individuals (the Saudis can be unbearable snobs and you know the story of the one family whose kids went after my Molly). But politically, at this point in time, a triumvirate of allies consisting of the U.S., Israel and Saudi could be a pretty impressive game changer.


  61. eaglesoars
    62 | May 14, 2018 9:26 am

    doriangrey wrote:

    A leaked report by prosecutors in Istanbul in March 2014 suggested that Zarrab spearheaded a second sanctions-busting scheme involving fake invoices for billions more in fictitious humanitarian shipments to Iran that were processed through Turkish banks.

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Thank you.

    The other day I saw something about a Turkish ship that, according to the manifest, was carrying wheat. It was about to be inspected by authorities at a Houthi port in Yemen when all of a sudden there was an explosion down below. The captain wouldn’t allow an inspection so I think they just impounded everything. I didn’t see any follow up reports but the thought of whoever invested in that shipment and all the parties waiting for the goods just having a really bad day was very amusing.


  62. 63 | May 14, 2018 10:06 am

    Happiness is watching the opening ceremony of our embassy in Jerusalem, realizing your mascara isn’t waterproof and not giving a damn, because you are so happy that the day you thought would never come…..is here!

    Reagan is looking down from heaven, saying “well done, Donald.”


  63. 64 | May 14, 2018 10:56 am

    The Barbarian wrote:

    realizing your mascara isn’t waterproof and not giving a damn,

    I’m listening to Jared Kushner right now. I have to tell you, he is reminding me a lot of JFK and Senator Obama. Whatever may be said about President Obama, I remember when I first heard Senator Obama speak, and I knew right then he would one day be President of the United States, whether for good or for ill, and as we now know, mostly for ill.

    As I said, there is something about Kushner’s speech, his delivery isn’t particularly good, but it sounds amazingly like something JFK would have said, like something you expect to hear from a 20 something bright eyed full of optimism and hope kid.

    It has all of the hope and optimism reminiscent of a Reagan speech only lacking in the cynicism of maturity. Reagan fervently desired, demanded that America be that Bright Shining City on the Hill, but his optimism was tempered with the knowledge that the worlds bad actors were not going to quit being bad actors just because America insisted on being a beacon of hope and freedom.


  64. 65 | May 14, 2018 11:07 am

    Just as a side note: Chickens are not Rocket Scientists, they are not going to the moon any time soon (at least not on their own without a massive amount of help from someone else) They are on the other hand a great deal like Democrats, in that once they get an idea in their little chicken heads, no matter how stupid that idea is, they do not give up on it.


  65. 66 | May 14, 2018 11:10 am

    @ doriangrey:

    Not a single DEMOCRAT attended the opening of our embassy, including Schmucky Schumer.


  66. eaglesoars
    67 | May 14, 2018 11:30 am

    I’m beginning to equate these people to the poor things that stand on street corners with signs warning the End of The World is nigh

    “To End A Presidency” by Laurence Tribe

    The history and future of our democracy’s ultimate sanction, presidential impeachment, and a guide to how it should be used now

    My #impeachment book with @JoshuaMatz8 comes out tomorrow. Bots don’t buy books but I think most of my 330,000+ followers are real. If 10% of you buy it in the first week it’ll be a best seller. You know what to do.

    ————

    https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/995920613603672064


  67. eaglesoars
    68 | May 14, 2018 11:32 am

    The Barbarian wrote:

    @ doriangrey:

    Not a single DEMOCRAT attended the opening of our embassy, including Schmucky Schumer.

    currently serving, you mean. I’m pretty sure Joe Lieberman is there


  68. eaglesoars
    69 | May 14, 2018 11:40 am

    As a lawyer, this guy sucks. Avenatti has been sending threatening emails to various people, telling them if they don’t stop writing ‘lies’ about him, he’ll sue. At the end of the email, there is this blurb

    “All rights reserved” and the subject line “Off the Record”

    https://twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/996044398675873795


  69. eaglesoars
    70 | May 14, 2018 11:43 am

    This is great. there’s this guy who calls into Chris Plante’s show everybody calls “Mike the Liberal”. He knows everything criminal Trump has ever done. Today it’s that Putin stole $100 mil and Trump laundered it for him. Got proof, Mike? NO! Because he won’t release his tax returns! Uh, Mike, that would’t be on his tax returns. Well, you can’t prove that he didn’t!


  70. 71 | May 14, 2018 11:45 am

    @ eaglesoars:

    Somebody on twitter should ask him, how much of that did he write, and how much of it did he steal from one or more of his students.


  71. eaglesoars
    72 | May 14, 2018 12:12 pm

    @ doriangrey:

    you first, Sparky


  72. 73 | May 14, 2018 12:14 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    He sure is. Lauding Trump for his decision.


  73. eaglesoars
    74 | May 14, 2018 12:15 pm

    People are making a big deal of this so I’ll pass it on. SCOTUS has ruled states can run sports betting / gambling at their discretion. Some 1992 law is unconstitutional. Lotsa money, I suppose, for revenue


  74. 75 | May 14, 2018 12:15 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    Alas, no twitter account. (Something to do with calling Chelsea Handler a Skank, Twitter objects to truth in advertising obviously)


  75. eaglesoars
    76 | May 14, 2018 12:24 pm

    @ doriangrey:

    oh you naughty! Personally, I don’t get into twitter pissing matches. Well, Thurston Howell III every now and then, but he’s been unusually quiet lately


  76. 77 | May 14, 2018 1:31 pm

    @ doriangrey:

    Actually, you still have a live account: https://twitter.com/doriangrey_grey


  77. 78 | May 14, 2018 4:47 pm

    The Barbarian wrote:

    @ doriangrey:

    Actually, you still have a live account: https://twitter.com/doriangrey_grey

    Nope, locked out of it because I can’t remember the password. Nope, can’t reset, because I no longer have the phone or email address that one was set up with.


  78. eaglesoars
    79 | May 14, 2018 5:17 pm

    @ doriangrey:

    set up a new email and a new twitter

    listening to Yawn Williams moan about “…and now Israel can do anything it wants, it’s attacking Iran!”

    I don’t know how someone that stupid breathes w/o mechanical assistance


  79. lobo91
    80 | May 14, 2018 7:43 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    I don’t know how someone that stupid breathes w/o mechanical assistance

    And then there’s this:

    MSNBC’S Katy Tur Mistakes Fireworks In Jerusalem For ‘Shelling’

    MSNBC’s Katy Tur mistook fireworks in Israel for “shelling” as the network covered the U.S. Embassy opening in Jerusalem Monday.

    While discussing the White House’s response to an outbreak of violence along the Gaza Strip, Tur interrupted an Israeli correspondent due to background noise.

    “And what are we hearing in the background?” Tur asked. “Is that Matt Bradley? Is that shelling?”


  80. eaglesoars
    81 | May 14, 2018 8:01 pm

    @ lobo91:

    I just saw that. If the writers at SNL had real balls, they would do skits of all the NBC screw ups.


  81. eaglesoars
    82 | May 14, 2018 8:04 pm

    oh, before I forget, I have another Mike Flynn question.

    Now we know (we think) that Flynn was charged with a crime he didn’t commit but he took the plea to protect his son.

    The narrative up to now is that he lied to the FBI AND the WH – the same lie, and the WH fired him.

    But he didn’t lie to the FBI

    My question is: why did the WH fire him?


  82. AZfederalist
    83 | May 14, 2018 9:14 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    If 10% of you buy it in the first week it’ll be a best seller. You know what to do.

    ————

    Heh, he’ll be lucky if 1% buy his book. He is targeting liberals, they are only liberal with other peoples’ money, they hoard their own money like misers.


  83. AZfederalist
    84 | May 14, 2018 9:16 pm

    @ AZfederalist:

    .. and it only takes 33,000 book buyers to make a best seller? In a country of 300 million? Really? That’s like 0.01% of the population. An average of 660 people per state. So, each book store in each state has what, 2 copies on hand?


  84. AZfederalist
    85 | May 14, 2018 9:19 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    I don’t know how someone that stupid breathes w/o mechanical assistance

    It’s a wonder, isn’t it? … and he gets paid a lot of money to be that stupid


  85. AZfederalist
    86 | May 14, 2018 9:21 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ lobo91:

    I just saw that. If the writers at SNL had real balls, they would do skits of all the NBC screw ups.

    Something about biting the hand that feeds you comes to mind.


  86. yenta-fada
    87 | May 14, 2018 9:22 pm

    The Barbarian wrote:

    @ doriangrey:

    Not a single DEMOCRAT attended the opening of our embassy, including Schmucky Schumer.

    The Canadian Jewish blogger Scaramouche refers to liberal Jews as “my idiot people”.


  87. eaglesoars
    88 | May 14, 2018 9:23 pm

    @ AZfederalist:

    the usual scam is to assign it for a course.


  88. eaglesoars
    89 | May 14, 2018 9:25 pm

    @ AZfederalist:

    yeah, no. SNL feeds NBC. Actually, maybe their ratings suck, I have no idea. I haven’t watched them since the Dan Akroyd/Belushi days


  89. eaglesoars
    90 | May 14, 2018 9:27 pm

    AZfederalist wrote:

    and it only takes 33,000 book buyers to make a best seller?

    I think it depends on the genre. A fiction best seller has a higher qualification bar than a science or econ book, I would think.


  90. AZfederalist
    91 | May 14, 2018 9:29 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ AZfederalist:

    the usual scam is to assign it for a course.

    Had forgotten about that, even though I suffered through at least 3 courses as an undergrad and one as a graduate student where the book was written by one of the profs. Although to be fair, in the graduate class, after class started, the prof told us not to buy the book as it was “too expensive”. Too late for me, I’d already bought it, but I did appreciate Dr. Rao’s intent.

    Still, I don’t think he’s going to approach 33,000 students in his classes.


  91. AZfederalist
    92 | May 14, 2018 9:31 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    I think it depends on the genre.

    Good point. So, if one wants a best seller, write a book in one of the most obscure topics you can find. The half dozen people in that area of expertise will buy it due to the scarcity of such writings and you become a best seller. Cool.


  92. yenta-fada
    93 | May 14, 2018 9:31 pm

    HI HOMIES

    ((((blogmockers)))

    (((lurkers)))

    I might not remember if those are hugs. I have a new computer & software, so I’ve been dropping by now and then. I’ve missed you all. Not following the DC action much, but all I can say abut Trump is FOUR MORE YEARS. After this term I mean. There’s still plenty of doomage to go around, yet Trump has gone beyond expectations in so many ways.


  93. eaglesoars
    94 | May 14, 2018 9:33 pm

    So this Russian guy Dihapaska (sp?) – we’re going to know tomorrow morning what he had to do with the dossier?

    this gets sicker and sicker. Why would Mueller ask a Russian to put up $25mil to rescue a rogue CIA agent from Iran? It’s not clear to me what position Mueller held at the time, so I don’t know what authority he had. But John Sullivan said FBI agents who were aware of the request broke the story to him so it was no secret there.


  94. yenta-fada
    95 | May 14, 2018 9:34 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    Eaglesoars, you’re here!


  95. 96 | May 14, 2018 9:35 pm

    AZfederalist wrote:

    The half dozen people in that area of expertise will buy it due to the scarcity of such writings and you become a best seller. Cool.

    Yup. You can have a best selling Jazz Album with as little as 1000 copies sold.


  96. eaglesoars
    97 | May 14, 2018 9:35 pm

    AZfederalist wrote:

    Still, I don’t think he’s going to approach 33,000 students in his classes.

    His alone,no, but there are lots of law classes. Altho I would be surprised if there are 33k law students at any one time. But it would put a dent into the goal in any event.


  97. yenta-fada
    98 | May 14, 2018 9:36 pm

    Why are my comments awaiting moderation? They were never moderate before.


  98. yenta-fada
    99 | May 14, 2018 9:48 pm

    I’m trapped in moderation because I’m still poop on a spring? JUSTICE
    for avatars!


  99. eaglesoars
    100 | May 14, 2018 9:55 pm

    almost forgot. If you didn’t see Brett Baier’s show tonite, you don’t know that Charles Krauthammer will be back soon (He’s in rehab now)


  100. yenta-fada
    101 | May 14, 2018 10:00 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    HELLO?


  101. 102 | May 14, 2018 10:00 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    He’s in rehab now

    For what? Liberal Arrogant Stupidity?


  102. Deplorable Bumr50
    103 | May 14, 2018 10:02 pm

    Millions of dollars in suitcases fly out of MSP, but why?

    http://www.fox9.com/news/investigators/millions-of-dollars-in-suitcases-fly-out-of-msp-but-why


  103. eaglesoars
    104 | May 14, 2018 10:36 pm

    @ doriangrey:

    he had surgery – spinal I believe


  104. AZfederalist
    105 | May 14, 2018 10:58 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ doriangrey:

    he had surgery – spinal I believe

    That’s too bad. He’s already wheel-chair bound. Hopefully his recovery has gone well.


  105. eaglesoars
    106 | May 14, 2018 11:09 pm

    @ AZfederalist:

    He’s been a paraplegic since he was 19. Diving accident.


  106. eaglesoars
    107 | May 14, 2018 11:12 pm

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:

    that airport has been a haven since 9/11. We’ve been hearing about even the cab drivers since forever.


  107. 108 | May 14, 2018 11:22 pm

    An interesting TED Talk…

    Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming | Nick Hanauer

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8


  108. eaglesoars
    109 | May 14, 2018 11:33 pm

    Don’t know if anyone watched Hannity when he was talking about that Russian guy. This American, Bob Levinson, who has been held in Iran for 11 yrs,is the guy the FBI wanted to rescue.

    I remember reading about the Levinson case. First,he is NOT a CIA employee. They used him as a contractor. I forget why, but Levinson wanted to go back into Iran and the woman at the CIA who handled him (forgot her name) said no way. He went in anyway and I don’t remember if she finally gave in or if he just told her ‘fuck it, I’m going”. IIRC, he wasn’t there long before he got picked up.

    So, 1) He is NOT CIA 2) He was NOT on an authorized mission, he went rogue.

    That’s the big reason they can’t get him out. As far as the Iranians are concerned, the guy is a spy with no political leverage to his advantage. Not yet anyway. So they’re going to keep him until they can get something they want for him. Something the U.S. is willing to pay. Evidently, there were several times when that almost happened, but never did.

    Second thing: If you watched the segment, the woman, Robyn Girtz (Gritz?) is the woman who was accusing the FBI of EEOC violations, McCabe specifically, among others, and she was the one Mike Flynn went to bat for, thereby pissing off all the 7th floor.

    And I have no idea why the FBI was working a CIA case.


  109. eaglesoars
    110 | May 14, 2018 11:34 pm

    @ doriangrey:

    that looks good, I watch tomorrow, time to turn in.

    nite.


  110. eaglesoars
    111 | May 14, 2018 11:41 pm

    I NEED A MODERATOR!!!

    Yenta is trying to post, her comment went to mod status, somebody please let her out


  111. 112 | May 14, 2018 11:55 pm

    If you’re an animal lover, be warned- this will piss you off no end.

    Mrs. RW sent a FB story about several people who are going around to people who have Pit Bulls for sale on Craigslist, taking/buying the dog (or puppies), and euthanizing them. To ‘Save the children’ or ‘Save their town’ from these ‘brutal, vicious monsters’.

    I want to shove a beach umbrella up their porthole and open it.


  112. lobo91
    113 | May 15, 2018 12:07 am

    @ eaglesoars:

    Done


  113. eaglesoars
    114 | May 15, 2018 12:10 am

    @ lobo91:

    thank you. nite.

    (I assume her post will show up shortly)


  114. yenta-fada
    115 | May 15, 2018 1:34 am

    lobo91 wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:

    Done

    Thanks for making me re-appear.


  115. rain of lead
    116 | May 15, 2018 6:38 am

    @ yenta-fada:

    YENTA!!!!
    ((((HUGS))))))


  116. 117 | May 15, 2018 7:32 am

    yenta-fada wrote:

    lobo91 wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:

    Done

    Thanks for making me re-appear.

    Good morning Bubbeleh…


  117. RIX
    118 | May 15, 2018 8:31 am

    https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/05/15/disgusting-ny-daily-news-cover-about-ivanka-trump-gaza-riots-is-a-new-low-for-journalism/
    @ Twitchy
    Good morning. And you thought that the MSM could not sink any lower.
    Imagine a comment like this about any female named Obama.


  118. eaglesoars
    119 | May 15, 2018 8:41 am

    @ RIX:

    She’s a big girl, she can handle it.

    I heard Rush talking about your legislature’s plan to fund the 5 unfunded public pensions using your home values. A tax based on assessed value for the next 30 yrs. And the really neat part, according to the genius that came up with it, is that you can’t just sell your house and leave because the tax is going to be part of the house’s value and no one will be stupid enough to buy it.

    I predict a lot of unexplained fires claiming total loss and lots of insurance payouts.


  119. 120 | May 15, 2018 8:45 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    is that you can’t just sell your house and leave because the tax is going to be part of the house’s value and no one will be stupid enough to buy it.

    One more example of the political class/kleptocracy’s belief that all money belongs to the state and individuals are merely holding it for the state until the state decides to reclaim it.


  120. eaglesoars
    121 | May 15, 2018 8:54 am

    @ doriangrey:

    I will never forget the first time I realized there are people in the gov’t who believe exactly that. Driving to work, listening to the radio, the winners of a call-in quiz were people at the IRS. During conversation w/ them, the host teased them about how “my money is being spent”

    And, with no hesitation, all humor/friendliness gone from his voice, the IRS guy sez “It. Is. Not. Your. Money.” Each word enunciated separately, like you do with a child not paying attention.

    It was chilling.


  121. 122 | May 15, 2018 9:46 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    And, with no hesitation, all humor/friendliness gone from his voice, the IRS guy sez “It. Is. Not. Your. Money.”

    To which the radio host should have replied… “But IT IS MY STOUT HEMP ROPE and you are about to be personally introduced to it, then it will once again BE MY MONEY”.


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