An interesting read from Selina Zito.
Zito has been quoted on this blog extensively, mostly as ammo against our Nevertrumpers explaining why Trump would win.
Harvard Meets the Yinzers
by coldwarrior ( 166 Comments › )Filed under Academia, Open thread at June 19th, 2018 - 10:17 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!
that’s good but it would be great to hear from the kids. AND they need to see a farm where animals, not just vegetables, are raised. They need to know where there meat, milk, etc. comes from.
just for fun – altho it’s real – here are the new United States Space Force Enlisted Rank Insignia
https://mobile.twitter.com/SpaceCorpsUS/status/1009051797141454848
Sundance is livestreaming the House Judiciary Committee thing w/Horowitz
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/06/19/house-joint-committee-hearing-with-ig-michael-horowitz-1000am-livestream/
Jeeezus. If you want to see someone’s reputation destroyed in public, you should see Trey Gowdy SHREDDING Horowitz.
The Peter Strzok who is investigating Clinton is the same Peter Strzok who says he can’t think of ONE American who won’t vote for Clinton?
And we’re supposed to believe that somehow that bias is somehow not outcome determinative?
yowser.
@ eaglesoars:
its a start
https://thewildernessofmirrors.wordpress.com/2018/06/19/to-declare-oneself-a-domestic-enemy/
@ eaglesoars:
Sorry about the monitor… Please check your USB port for a new downloaded monitor…
@ eaglesoars:
Jeeze… I opened it up just as Elijah Cummings was attempting to put words into Horowitz’s mouth regarding the IG Reports findings. Questioning Horowitz about the Mueller investigation, Horowitz said, “my investigation was about the Clinton emails, not Mueller”.
Cummings is the most dishonest and partisan asshole in congress.
doriangrey wrote:
no he isn’t, not by a long shot. If I had just one bullet, it would have Diane Feinstein’s name on it.
However, he is competitive for the dumbest, up against Mudslide Maxine, Barbara Lee and that Guam guy, Johnson. I usually call it a tie
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s always her office that leaks info, some of it selectively, to skew public perception. Her fingerprints are always around somewhere
http://thefederalist.com/2018/04/27/confirmed-former-feinstein-staffer-hired-fusion-gps-christopher-steele/
And if you read James Mitchell’s book, “Enhanced Interrogation”, it was always Feinstein and her office that were trying to push the ‘torture’ narrative when they knew it was false. This was both in hearings and behind the scenes to the press. She knowingly compromised an entire intelligence effort and is no better than Hillary. She doesn’t score quite as high simply because she doesn’t have the confirmed kills Hillary has
IG Horowitz is a chicken shit liar who is doing nothing but protecting the Deep State. He is every bit the disgrace to the concept of justice and equal under the law that Comey and Strzok are. Fuck Horowitz.
@ doriangrey:
apparently so. What I’m wondering is if the take-down he got today is going to impact the way he finishes up his report on the Russia/Trump debacle.
Lindsay Graham shocked me yesterday with his “I’m not buying it line” and Gowdy, today, has been utterly scorching.
eaglesoars wrote:
Gowdy is always utterly scorching, he makes great Kabuki Theater in that respect, but when does Gowdy’s rhetoric ever accomplish anything?
doriangrey wrote:
Ah. I was just about to ask. Weren’t there some documents the DOJ was supposed to turnover by yesterday? And if they didn’t, Nunes promised that by Weds “it won’t be pretty”?
Anybody heard anything? I haven’t.
@ eaglesoars:
Ah, yes. The “full weight of the Constitution will drop” or something…
That would mean something to me if the Constitution in question was engraved on inch thick stainless.
http://jw.structure.email/press-release/judicial-watch-sues-doj-for-andrew-weissmann-text-messages-regarding-trump-clinton?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Press+Release&utm_content=20180619140816
drip drip drip. It takes time.
http://dailytorch.com/2018/06/cartoon-there-is-no-swamp/
Swamp becoming more apparent to the public with each drip drip drip. Mass distraction media attack about the border “It’s for the children” to cover for DC criminality.
“Nail them all” It’s on facebook, but you can click through to watch this funny short music vid.
https://www.facebook.com/retainyourfreedom/videos/1778894498812243/
@ yenta-fada:
Heh heh, loved it, but actually ever see it? I have believing it will ever come to pass, though it would be fully justified.
Trump hugged a flag today.
LOL.
Did jesse Waters just say Peter Strzok has just been escorted out of the FBI building?
doriangrey wrote:
Yes. Case in point, missing Strzok texts:
Horowitz said that while the initial process of obtaining Strzok-Page messages from the FBI was “easy,” recovering the “We’ll stop it” text proved “challenging.” He also said that the painstaking process used to recover the message and others raises concerns about the FBI’s text message retention system.
Horowitz said that the OIG’s cyber forensic team obtained Strzok and Page’s FBI phones in order to extract any missing text messages. The team then relied on an outside contractor that the agency frequently uses in order to see whether there were other forensic tools that could extract messages from the phones.
“They provided us with some additional tools, so we did a second extraction and gained more text messages,” Horowitz testified.
The third step was an outreach to the Department of Defense to see if Pentagon experts had any other tools that could be used for the investigation. “They gave us those tools and we used that and we extracted more text messages,” said Horowitz.
The Aug. 8, 2016 Strzok text was discovered during a routine quality control check that the OIG conducted in early May, Horowitz said.
OIG’s forensic examiners discovered “that the phone had a database on it that was actually also doing a collection of text messages,” said Horowitz.
“They extracted those messages from the phone and found the second part of the August 8 text, ‘No, no, We’ll stop it.’”
“It turned out that the FBI wasn’t aware that that database on there, which was supposed to be an operating function, was actually collecting data,” explained Horowitz, who plans to release a report on the OIG’s text message recovery process.
What Horowitz did not explain — and was not asked — was why Strzok’s portion of the Aug. 8, 2016 message was so difficult to find.
Horowitz said that the FBI’s failure to discover the text messages raises concerns about whether the bureau was able to collect all of its agents’ and officials’ text messages. “We are not convinced that the FBI was collecting 100 percent of the text messages,” he said.
yenta-fada wrote:
there is some really sloppy verbiage here. a smartphone has all text msgs on it, it’s not about ‘databases’. I don’t know what the hell they’re talking about or trying to say
Hey, my Rep did something!
@ yenta-fada:
That was from The Daily Caller. I remember John MacAfee (of anti-virus fame) offering the FBI his help in making their phones more secure. They weren’t at all interested. So, arrogant, hidebound, lazy,
indifferent, criminal, unaccountable, narrow minded, sleazy? Pick your own adjectives.
eaglesoars wrote:
I think it’s more like THEY don’t know what they’re talking about.
I have more adjectives, but I’m sure you can come up with them yourself. yinzself? 🙂
yenta-fada wrote:
one of my favorite rogues
eaglesoars wrote:
He wants to run for President again as a Libertarian.
ok, this is not a good look
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Trump’s deputy chief of staff is out: Joe Hagin to leave White House after keeping North Korea summit secrets from Trump to stop him from tweeting – and revelations of links to sex cult
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5862869/Trumps-deputy-chief-staff-Joe-Hagin-leave-White-House.html
eaglesoars wrote:
yep
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5862743/FBI-lover-Peter-Strzok-escorted-FBI.html
The question now is does he still have his security clearance
,@ eaglesoars:
Strozk has got to know that the rest of the Deep State now sees him as the sacricial lamb to give up to save the
big fish. I wonder if his lawyer will have him invoke the Fifth in front of Congress now.
@ eaglesoars:
@ RIX:
*waves*
**goes back to paying bills**
@ rain of lead:
Hey
@ rain of lead:
Hi!! Bye!!!
RIX wrote:
my guess is that his game will be “If I go down, I’m taking all of you with me”. That’s the only reason I can think of for his decision to forgo the 5th. He’s decided he’s a dead man walking so he won’t walk alone.
“Despite [ISIS’] facade of Islamic purity, its criminal terrorists are known drug users and traffickers,” the coalition said in its press release. “The cache included more than 300,000 pills of Captagon, an illegal drug frequently trafficked and used by [ISIS] members.”
Captagon is a highly addictive amphetamine-based drug that is banned in many countries. The drug keeps its user awake and alert for long periods of time and can help dull pain. The drug’s main ingredient is fenethylline, a chemical combination of amphetamine and theophylline.
Informally, the drug is sometimes referred to as the “Jihadi pill,” due to its reported popularity among ISIS militants.
@ coldwarrior:
Can’t remember the author’s name but the book is “House to House”. He fought in at least one of the battles for Fallujah. He said every time they cleared a house/site the place was covered with syringes and paraphernalia. Meth. Those guys were loaded.
IIRC, going into battle high is a long tradition. Isn’t there some kind of relationship between the words ‘assassin’ and ‘hashish’? I seem to recall that getting ripped before battle has been a practice since Europeans first encountered them.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yes, the Hashashin were the 10th/11th century Islamic shock troopers, something of a cross between a SS Storm Trooper and a Ninja. They are the root of the word assassin.
Good morning. You might want to watch Fox and Friends on Friday, they will have Lynard Skynard.
RIX wrote:
No disrespect to the guys in the band… But that aint Lynard Skynard. Keep in mind that Lynard Skynard was formed in 1964. Half of the band died in 1977, most importantly, Ronnie Van Zant, who wrote all of their hit songs.
Lynard Skynard, as it exists today, is a corporate franchise, Gary Rossington is the only current member of the band who was actually in Lynard Skynard.
It at least seems like people are getting more and more pissed about enforcing border laws and separating illegal immigrant parents and kids. I hope there isn’t fallout in November, but I’d bet there will be.
A friend is Hispanic, and from what he’s heard voter registration is through the roof.
@ doriangrey:
Sorry, but when you have a band that’s original line up is 10 people, and you reach the point where there is only 1 original member of the band left, it isn’t the same band anymore. It has become a multi-million dollar a year corporation trading off the history of the band.
It isn’t that they are not good musicians, they just aren’t Lynard Skynard anymore. It would be more honest of them to change their name, but they would not have the multi-million dollar a year crowd draw if they did.
Having Johnnie Van Zant stand in for his older brother Ronnie also does not make them Lynard Skynard, and when Gary Rossington finally dies or leaves the band they won’t have any real connection to Lynard Skynard anymore.
ROTFLMAO… American crude oil production to slow down… Not because of a lack of crude oil… But because there isn’t enough pipeline capacity to handle the amount of crude oil being produced.
The Biggest U.S. Oil Patch Is Near Its Limit
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-20/shale-giant-says-permian-oil-faces-shut-ins-on-pipeline-shortage
GE Drops Out of the Dow After More Than a Century
https://www.wsj.com/articles/walgreens-to-replace-ge-in-dow-industrials-1529443336
Destroyed by the stupidity of entering into the financial services market.
@ doriangrey:
more good news about the rewards of stupidity
Starbucks sinks after announcing a weaker-than-expected sales forecast and plans to close over 100 stores next year (SBUX)
http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/starbucks-stock-price-weak-same-store-sales-forecast-closing-stores-2018-6-1027216245
I read the other day that some urban areas with all their regs had become a burden and they are looking to expand in the south as they think it would be a more welcoming environment.
I laughed my ass off. Atlanta, maybe, where there are a lot of yankee expats, but that’s about it.
eaglesoars wrote:
Starbucks is taking a beating because of… exactly what you said… Sheer unbridled STUPIDITY. Hiring a bunch of social justice warrior special snowflakes for public service positions was a guaranteed receipt for disaster.
If you are in business, keep your political/religious/ideological views to yourself unless your specific aim is only customers that agree with you.
Starbucks managed to piss off more than half of their customer base, so sad, to bad.
I really need to find a different job. They gave me a 1.75% raise. It works out to about $18/paycheck. Fricking pathetic.
doriangrey wrote:
Makes sense.
So Corey Lewindowski got ripped for mocking Zak somebody for his hysteria over a 10 yr old girl with Down’s Syndrome who was ‘ripped from her mother’s arms’
Some mother
WOMP WOMP: Turns out ICE *RESCUED* the 10-year-old with Down syndrome from smugglers
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2018/06/20/womp-womp-turns-out-ice-rescued-the-10-year-old-with-down-syndrome-from-smugglers/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget
And Peter Fonda decided to make his bones off Barron Trump by tweeting ““WE SHOULD RIP BARRON TRUMP FROM HIS MOTHER’S ARMS AND PUT HIM IN A CAGE WITH PEDOPHILES AND SEE IF MOTHER WILL WILL STAND UP AGAINST THE GIANT ASSHOLE SHE IS MARRIED TO,”
Melania sicced the Secret Service on his ass
http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/20/melania-calls-secret-service-after-actor-peter-fonda-threatens-to-kidnap-barron-trump/
After Michael Hayden tweeted his Auschwitz ditty I said these people are sowing the wind and they won’t like the whirlwind. This is getting qualitatively worse and somebody is going to get hurt. Then a lot of somebodies are going to get hurt.
Former John McCain Strategist Steve Schmidt Denounces GOP, Leaves Party for Democrats
http://breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/20/former-mccain-strategist-schmidt-denounces-gop-leaves-party-democrats/
GREAT! I hope he’s immediately hired to run of their campaigns!!
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
That guy hasn’t won a campaign. This is simply re-branding because McCain isn’t going to be around to carry his water for him.
Rush just read a letter from United Airlines saying they had contacted Federal agencies to say they would not transport immigrant children separated from their parents because “we’re all about connecting the world”
These are the same people that kill their customers’ dogs, right?
It seems that Trump’s executive order says that children will be held in detention with their parents. No separation.
Be careful what you ask for with this guy
After losing a lawsuit by a Muslim, 60 groups who have been branded as hate groups may go after the far left SPLC. Those multi millionaires targeting Christians & others needs to be reduced to the poverty they have claimed to represent.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/about-60-organizations-are-considering-a-lawsuit-against-the-splc-following-3m-nawaz-settlement/
Headine title of the day. Weiner’s laptop unleashes justice regarding Hillary’s conniving march to the top.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/19/fbi-doj-and-hillary-clinton-weiner-problem/
Trump bring back group health care to small businesses wanting to band together to keep costs down. YES
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/29316-trump-allows-more-small-businesses-to-join-forces-to-get-health-insurance
@ yenta-fada:
Typos & lapses in grammar are due to imps. Grotty little devils.
yenta-fada wrote:
Why am I the only one who remembers this? The NYPD found emails about sexual exploits and threatened to go public if the FBI didn’t pick up the case. The NYPD was in open revolt
African “migrants” kept out of Italy get to kick out rent paying students in small Spanish town. REPLACEMENT population targets earners and learners.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-20/spanish-students-given-24-hours-leave-dorms-will-house-aquarius-migrants
eaglesoars wrote:
Now you have company. *smooch*
@ yenta-fada:
somebody suggested they do that to Harvard
yenta-fada wrote:
This model of moochers happens internationally. All stealth and strategic planning. An object lesson on why we need bloggers & citizen journalism. googlefacebookamazon fights this with their bazillions.
eaglesoars wrote:
Harvard is actually the recipient of massive Federal funding.
eaglesoars wrote:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-n_wMm9-DTDM/Wyo9YvA2OEI/AAAAAAABuK0/Yo7oo57u0BQI7iQPy5NZyGUozbx11qjDwCHMYCw/s1600-h/the%2Banswer%2Byou%2Bwant%2Bdilbert%255B3%255D
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SPRS8dHFW_Y/Wyo9ZphBT7I/AAAAAAABuK8/5A32_DWScV8JP9_66Vav7M8BNRojvyZugCHMYCw/s1600-h/dilbert%2Bdata%2Bwrong%255B3%255D
Fire the butt of this Federal employee “activist”
http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/20/socialist-activist-kirstjen-nielsen-doj/
@ yenta-fada:
every user I ever had for every piece of software I ever wrote.
Trump don’t play
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President Trump threatened during a meeting with GOP senators and White House officials to shut down the government over full funding for his border wall, according to multiple reports.
Politico reported Tuesday that Trump is uninterested in the Senate’s plan to provide $1.6 billion on Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Instead, according to the news outlet, he wants the full $25 billion for the project funded all at once.
Trump told meeting attendees on Monday that he will shut down the government in September if he does not receive the full funding, Politico reported.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/393013-trump-threatens-to-shut-down-government-over-full-border-wall-funding
eaglesoars wrote:
lol. Good times.
@ eaglesoars:
In September no less…
@ eaglesoars:
Dont’cha love it when they go to Politico for quotes when Trump talks.
There’s been some sort of argument on the House floor between Meadows and Ryan and Meadows is pissed.
You have to take a look at a young Donald Trump being interviewed by a young Oprah. It’s a short clip with Trump saying EXACTLY what he says now about Trade practices.
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr
I’m convinced Canada would not have blown up a trade war with Trump at the G7 meeting here if:
1. Trudeau had understood a single word of what was being said.
2. Scrunt GLOBALIST with actual Nazi roots, Chrystia Freeland had not been in DC torpedeoing a real resolution.
eaglesoars wrote:
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/06/20/growing-evidence-fbi-altered-witness-reports-fed-doj-watchdog-false-information-646345
If I post any more links, Imma demand the same salary CW gets for posting here. 🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Ryan is a treasonous little snake in the grass. that is all.
yenta-fada wrote:
CW would probably agree to that… seeing as it cost him about $79.00 a month to the doors open.
yenta-fada wrote:
what is the evidence? The twitter sleuths came up with questions some time ago – problems with the timelines, I believe – but I want to know what Meadows thinks he has. In any event, Horowitz’s “ON IT BOSS!” response is risible. He should be telling the committee what the issues are, not the other way around.
doriangrey wrote:
yeah. I think his friendship/wing man relationship w/McCarthy will hurt McCarthy’s chances to be the next speaker.
I’m off to read. Caesar has just met Cleopatra. It’s gettin’ real.
eaglesoars wrote:
Spoiler, she goes for the younger hotter guy.
doriangrey wrote:
I could have figured that out for myself you know. lol
Dinner gong.
here’s the story on the Meadows/Ryan argument
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/06/fireworks-rep-mark-meadows-gets-in-speaker-paul-ryans-face-over-immigration-bill-video/
From the “Headlines I Never Thought I’d See” file:
@ lobo91:
she should be kicked out just for being stupid. And no, not him, he can’t get pregnant and give birth. Anybody who can’t figure out who gets stuck with the consequences has no business wasting my tax dollars learning how to shimmy up a rope.
bedtime. nite.
@ lobo91:
Liability on the battlefield
coldwarrior wrote:
But… diversity and inclusiveness… Gender equality… and… stuffs…
There is no diversity, inclusiveness or equality on a battlefield. There is only death and unimaginable violence. Anyone who advocates for diversity, inclusiveness or equality in the US Military should be put in the infantry and sent to the most deadly front line conflict America is fighting, and given a bouquet of flowers as a weapon and told… Here is your diversity, inclusiveness and equality.
man I’d hate to have to write the code for this
SCOTUS rules states can collect taxes for online sales
eaglesoars wrote:
Watch as this ends up being a disaster where the consumer ends up being double taxed. Taxed by the state they live in, and also by the state where the object purchased in is located. Perhaps by every state in-between as well.
@ doriangrey:
yep. The business rules for this are going to be a freaking nightmare. And watch places like Berkeley decide they want to add a ‘miles’ tax, in order to encourage support for ‘local’ providers. And the data base design part is a suicide pact.
In other news -this is a sad one – Koko, the gorilla,has died. She was 46 yrs old.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5869315/Koko-sign-language-gorilla-dies-aged-46.html
What a magnificent creature.
eaglesoars wrote:
Nope…. Koko learned sign language, therefore, and otherwise ergo, Koko was a Race Traitor.
This lesson in Liberal Marxist logic brought to you by the Letters X, Y, and Z and the numbers 1, 4 and 13…
doriangrey wrote:
The beautiful Koko could have been accused of ‘voice appropriation’. e.g. if you try to publish a book on Native Canadian tribes, the Natives will block your research and de-legitimize your observations.
I know someone who experienced this. The chances of actually being a member of the tribe and openly criticizing dishonesty or cultural practices are very small. Chiefs & their cronies can easily end up with the lion’s share of Federal money being given out. Not saying it is systemic because I do not know.
So, Koko could have been castigated by organizations who represent the deaf population. Within the Deaf community, there was a movement against the use of cochlear implants that allowed children to hear normally. They wanted to keep sign language as the primary means of communication.
Good. I hope this sticks in Fauxcahaunta’s craw
Federal court rules consumer bureau structure unconstitutional
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/393510-federal-court-rules-consumer-bureau-structure-unconstitutional
She ruled that the entire section of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act that established the CFPB should be stricken, and she dismissed the CFPB from the case, which was filed in May 2017 by then-New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D). Preska did not issue an order to shut down the bureau.
of course they did
FBI: Hundreds of Bureau Agents Took Bribes from CNN, NY Times, NBC News and More; Wray Looks the Other Way to Protect Media Partners
https://truepundit.com/fbi-hundreds-of-bureau-agents-took-bribes-from-cnn-ny-times-nbc-news-and-more-wray-looks-the-other-way-to-protect-media-partners/
@ eaglesoars:
Yet again, Конгресс won’t do anything about it….
Deplorable Macker wrote:
He won’t find any ‘documentary evidence’. Not that he’d look for any….
I had a long drive today, and the news all day is that the Democrats are outraged at Trumps new policy
to keep migrant families together. It’s Nazi donchknow? Is there anybody who did bot see that coming?
I have no way to evaluate the plausibility of this, so I’ll just drop it here.
Trump’s North Korea Play: a Ploy to Secure Vast Deposits of Rare Earth Elements?
It’s not far-fetched to consider ‘The Art of the Deal’ applied to North Korea’s allegedly vast rare earth resources.
This may not be about condos on North Korean beaches after all. Arguably, the heart of the matter in the Trump administration’s embrace of Kim Jong-un has everything to do with one of the largest deposits of rare earth elements (REEs) in the world, located only 150 km northwest of Pyongyang and potentially worth billions of US dollars.
All the implements of 21st century technology-driven everyday life rely on the chemical and physical properties of 17 precious elements on the periodic chart also known as REEs.
Currently, China is believed to control over 95% of global production of rare earth metals, with an estimated 55 million tons in deposits. North Korea for its part holds at least 20 million tons.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/is-trumps-north-korea-play-a-ploy-to-secure-vast-deposits-of-rare-earth-elements/244515/
Charles Krauthammer has died. The guy on Fox is crying.
So am I
@ eaglesoars:
My mileage may vary, but this has been SOP with the IMF (Confessions of an Economic Hitman”)awa the Clinton Foundation, Oil multi-nationals, and Colonial powers throughout history. I don’t see this as a Trump move. He wants MAGA, but there is a swamp that desperately needs draining as a priority. The rare metals thing is important without a doubt.
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s just awful. RIP
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/06/21/charles-krauthammer-conservative-commentator-dies-cancer/687697002/
RIP, we lost a beautiful mind.
http://therightscoop.com/breaking-charles-krauthammer-has-died/
eaglesoars wrote:
Sorry, not buying it. The REE in California utterly dwarf what exists in China and North Korea combined. We have a mountain range here that is about 500 miles long that is literally the worlds largest and richest deposits of REE’s.
There is absolutely ZERO reason to seek out North Korean REE’s when what is in California far exceeds is both volume and quality of ore.
@ doriangrey:
see, that’s why i post this stuff. So the next question is do regs, etc., make the California minerals less available – expensive – than getting them from the NORKS?
yenta-fada wrote:
So important that the Clinton’s closed the largest richest and most productive REE fields on earth in the 1990’s and the California Dems followed up by making the mountain range that contains the largest and richest deposits on earth a federal sanctuary to prevent any REE’s development. Except for the Chinese company which they allowed to purchase Molycorp for pennies on the dollar purchasing a company that had just spent over 10 billion dollars on facility upgrades to make it the most technically advanced REE developing facility on earth for a paltry 48 million dollars.
Took long enough
Jeff Sessions: Peter Strzok No Longer Has Security Clearance
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/21/jeff-sessions-peter-strzok-lost-security-clearance/
But look at Sessions’ statement:
“Mr. Strzok — as I understand — has lost his security clearance,”
He doesn’t actually know, it’s just what Rosenstein et. al. told him
doriangrey wrote:
It’s gonna be awesome when Trump fixes that
Of course he did
REVEALED: Christopher Steele Visited State Department Shortly Before 2016
https://truepundit.com/revealed-christopher-steele-visited-state-department-shortly-before-2016-election/
eaglesoars wrote:
Yes and No. Most of the mountain range has been declared a state nature preserve and is off limits currently to any mining or exploration.
With the exception of the area that Molycorp has mineral rights to. As I just told Yenta, Molycorp just spent 10 billion dollars upgrading their facilities to be the most technologically advance REE extraction and refinement facilities on earth.
The Chinese dumped REE’s causing the price of REE’s to collapse which bankrupted MolyCorp, the Chinese then purchased MolyCorp for 48 million dollars. (the sale may still be pending finally court approval, but I think it has actually cleared by now)
Keep in mind, it was the REE mines here in California that kicked off the entire silicon revolution. MolyCorp is the reason that Silicon Valley is located in California rather than in say Boston nor Texas.
The Chinese dumped REE’s causing the price of REE’s to collapse which bankrupted MolyCorp, the Chinese then purchased MolyCorp for 48 million dollars. (the sale may still be pending finally court approval, but I think it has actually cleared by now)
You’ve written about this before. I remember saving it so I wouldn’t have to look it up, etc. Of course………….
The Nationals had a moment of silence for Dr. K. He would have been so honored
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m not sure there is anything Trump can do at this point, MolyCorp was officially dissolved on 6-14-2018. It is in bankruptcy liquidation right this minute with Oaktree Resources (the majority debt holder) doing everything they can to recover their 1.9 billion dollar stake.
There was some speculation that the US government might block the sale of assets because MP Mining is a holding company for Chinese super conglomerate Shenghe Resources Holding Co., Ltd. but I have seen nothing to indicate that the Feds did or do plan on stopping anything. All indications are that the sale went through.
doriangrey wrote:
I’m not either. At this point. The thing about ‘at this point’, tho, is that sooner or later it becomes “oh lookie here!”
I have a question for anybody that might know. I’ve been reading some Roman history from Cicero onward. What Caesar’s soldiers were able to do in the field is stunning. Forget the actual fighting, just look at the YEARS they lived in the field, in the wild. Then look at the marching, the building, the basic day-to-day maintenance like caring for equipment, horses, etc. If I understand correctly a legion was about 5000 men. And Caesar had lots of legions.
How the HELL do you feed that monster? Where do you get the calories?
john ward died
just the greatest play caller in ut history
Peyton Manning to Joey Kent (John Ward Call) – 1995: Tennessee Beats Alabama, 41-14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSnJ93hcAEs
that’s two
wonder who #3 will be
@ rain of lead:
that kind of day, I guess
If you’re watching Tucker, here’s the website Caputo referenced where you can read all about the FBI informant “Henry Greenberg”
http://democratdossier.org/
@ rain of lead:
Judicial Watch Obtains IRS Documents Revealing McCain’s Subcommittee Staff Director Urged IRS to Engage in “Financially Ruinous” Targeting
https://judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-obtains-irs-documents-revealing-mccains-subcommittee-staff-director-urged-irs-to-engage-in-financially-ruinous-targeting/
eaglesoars wrote:
You take everyone else shit from them. What did you think the word “Pillage” means? When the Roman Army rolled into town, there was literally nobody that could stop them from taking whatever they wanted.
20 percent of the Roman Empire were slaves, when the Roman Army rolled in, they literally took everything that caught their fancy. Food, property, possessions, people, they took it all.
When they showed up, first thing they did, was build a garrison facility, highly protected and defensible, then the killed anyone who resisted and took whatever the fuck they wanted.
eaglesoars wrote:
great. the guy is a low life Russian mob schlub. FBI counter intel hangs out with the cream of the crop
doriangrey wrote:
not the way I’m reading it. Certainly there was some of that, but keep doing that and you’ve got the natives at your throat constantly. That’s not the way they operated. They wanted pacification, not war. MOST of the time, the populations where they showed up didn’t put up a fight because they weren’t into getting slaughtered. But few settlements could sustain 5000 grown fighting men, so the armies couldn’t live off them anyway.
Logistically, there’s more to this.
@ doriangrey:
Just as a side note, at its peak under Constantine I, the Roman Army had about 650,000 legionaries. They were very very good at taking everybody elses shit.
Funny story. The Germanic tribes didn’t have experience with booze. They weren’t big into agriculture. Until they met the Romans, then, hoo boy!
Par-TAY!! The Romans, who were not terribly stupid, passed a law that forbade giving the tribes any plantings for vineyards. Their vintners cornered the market on an entire civilization of reasonably pliable drunks.
eaglesoars wrote:
No, that’s exactly the way they operated. What you are not understanding, is that the Roman Army never stopped moving. 5 Legions would show up (that’s about 30,000 legionaries), build a garrison and then leave, leaving behind a Cohort of about 500 men, depending on the size of the the area they were occupying.
Before they left, they killed anyone who resisted so that the population that they just subdued could be managed by a single Cohort. And they were constantly resupplying the Legions with more troops which followed behind the advance Legions and reinforced the Cohorts as needed.
They Roman Army never stopped moving so that no conquered territory was ever overburdened by supporting the full weight of the Roman Army. Rome owed its entire existence to conquest.
The empire was doomed from the start by physical logistics. Eventually Rome conquered everything within the ability of its supply lines to control and it simply could not pillage enough supplies or wealth for what they were pillaging to make it all the way back to Rome.
@ doriangrey:
Some of what you say doesn’t comport w/what I’m reading but we’ll discuss later because the heathen beagles just knocked over 2 plants and there’s dirt all over the place – including the beagles who are looking very confused.
I agree about the conquest part tho. Rome existed to conquer and conquer meant loot. I ran across one sad story about the Roman silver mines in Spain that used slave labor. Aside from the loot, Rome grew fat on slaves and its trade. As magnificent a civilization as it was, there was an underbelly that was horrific
gotta go get a broom.
Local trouble.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Funny how they leave out the fact that he was fleeing the scene of a drive-by shooting. It wasn’t just a “traffic stop”
eaglesoars wrote:
2 things to keep in mind here,
1) You are reading a very romanticized version of Roman history.
2) The version I am telling you is not romanticized and rather brutally honest if unflattering and highly critical.
Yes, there was much about Rome that was straight up breath taking in its brilliance. The Romans were brutal, not stupid. Rome was brilliant in more than its engineering and architecture, one of Romes most brilliant ideas, which allowed the empire to survive as long as it did, was Roman Citizenship.
Most people are unaware of this little aspect of Roman law. But to strike a Roman citizen without justification (as defined by Roman Law) carried the death penalty. Being a citizen of Roman definitely carried serious perks. This was a fact not lost on anyone in the Roman provinces.
There were only 2 ways to gain Roman citizenship, a) your parents were Roman citizens, or b) you paid the local procurator (local Roman Governor) a huge sum of money. Roman citizenship was quiet literally a coveted position.
If you were not a Roman citizen, and you fucked with a Roman citizen, the local garrison commander would sent out a troop out (80 plus legionaries) and they would kill you, burn your house and whatever other property you owned to the ground, and take everyone in your family who they didn’t kill as slaves.
Everyone in all of the Roman provinces was encouraged to seek Roman citizenship. Being a Roman citizen meant that the Roman Army could not just take whatever they wanted from you, taxes, yes, but they were restricted from straight up pillaging you at will.
It was this practice more than anything else that allowed the Roman Empire to survive as long as it did. Conquer, subjugate, transform the subjugated into citizens loyal the the empire, and move on to the next target.
@ lobo91:
It gets worse.
Apparently they found a poem he wrote about growing up in a sh*thole neighborhood two years ago.
The local news anchors are crying while they read it.
FWIW, I don’t know how good the shoot was. While the officer had just been sworn in that day, apparently he had 7 years of law enforcement experience in “various jurisdictions”.
Nobody really wants to be an East Pittsburgh cop, so I factor that in as well.
Guess what? The little girl in the picture who became the poster child for the evil Trumpian border holocaust was never separated from her mother at all. They’re being housed together while mom is processed for deportation…and possible prosecution.
You see, she’s already been deported once before.
Will the MSM or the Democrats mention any of these details?
Not on your life (or hers).
doriangrey wrote:
Oh, DO tell me my entire bibliography, Dorian, please
lobo91 wrote:
I never thought I’d be glad the SOB isn’t dead yet, but I am. Now he gets it shoved down his throat. I hope he goes to his grave knowing his reputation is destroyed
Not from The Onion:
@ lobo91:
back to McCain – I’ve heard rumors that he wasn’t the Hanoi Hilton Hero he’s made out to be and that the accident on the ship WAS due to what they call a ‘wet start’ – altho the investigation cleared him of that. In any event, I’ve never heard him characterized as anything but a lousy pilot. Now about appointing Cindy to his seat – does anyone remember something about her stealing drugs from a charity she was involved with? That went away but I don’t remember why, hushed up, debunked, etc.
lobo91 wrote:
Well, Mark Levin is going to be thrilled. He was just on TV tonite asking “Where’s Stormy when we need her?”
@ eaglesoars:
Four lost aircraft and one he managed to land after beclowning himself.
Even the liberal “fact check” sites acknowledge that.
Should have never been shot down, because he never should have been flying a plane.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Is that like – he actually crashed 4 planes?
My Dad told me about someone stationed at his base whose name you would recognize so Dad made me promise never to say it but his initials are Tom Harmon and he used to play football. He kept crashing planes because he didn’t pay attention to his fuel gauge. Dad refused to fly with him, and refused to let him fly on any of Dad’s missions because other crews were so distracted by his sloppiness they couldn’t concentrate. God only knows how many people he hurt/killed, forget the equipment.
ok, nite.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
@ lobo91:
McCain is a fine example of the massive amount of damage one egomaniacal Senator can do.
@ eaglesoars:
Yes.
Three plus the one the VC brought down.
The other he almost crashed while being DOCUMENTED by the Navy for being the proverbial “asshat.”
@ doriangrey:
Very interesting overview of the military strategies used during the Roman Empire. Do you have any book suggestions?
eaglesoars wrote:
Fiction. 98.7 percent fiction. How can I say that? Because there are virtually ZERO written records depicting her actual relationship between her and Julius Caesar, or her and Marc Antony, in fact, over 90 percent of what is known about Cleopatra is from the Roman historian Plutarch and it was written 200 years after her death.
There are ZERO love notes, or any other kind of record of the interactions between Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, or Marc Antony and Cleopatra. 90 percent of whatever you think you know is pure fiction.
There is something on the order of 5 actual documents from her time that mention her, and they do not mention her interactions with the Romans. And the single document closest to her… was written 33 years after she died.
So, your bibliography on Rome, from what you have said so far, fiction, more fiction, pure romantic bullshit, and still more fiction.
If you want to discuss Roman history with me, might I suggest you pick up the 5 volume set, “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, and read it first.
yenta-fada wrote:
“The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” would be a good place to start. Granted, it is 5 very lengthy volumes, but if you want to understand the Roman Empire it is must read material.
From the Daily Caller, an official statement on Peter Fonda.
Sony Pictures has released a statement on Peter Fonda, the actor who has sent vile, disturbing threats to women and children associated with the Trump administration.
Sony Pictures Classics, which will be releasing a movie co-starring Fonda in a matter of days, said in a statement sent to The Daily Caller that Fonda’s comments were “abhorrent, reckless and dangerous” and that “we condemn them completely.” The statement goes on to explain that Fonda has only a “minor role” in the film and the studio will not be pulling it in fairness to the other actors in the ensemble cast. Sony’s full statement:
“Peter Fonda’s comments are abhorrent, reckless and dangerous, and we condemn them completely. It is important to note that Mr. Fonda plays a very minor role in the film. To pull or alter this film at this point would unfairly penalize the filmmaker Shana Feste’s accomplishment, the many actors, crew members and other creative talent that worked hard on the project. We plan to open the film as scheduled this weekend, in a limited release of five theaters.”
Fonda found himself under heavy scrutiny Wednesday after tweeting that the president’s 11-year-old son Barron should be ripped away from his family and caged with pedophiles.
Fonda has since deleted the tweet. (RELATED: Office Of First Lady Calls Secret Service After Actor Peter Fonda Calls For Barron Trump To Be Kidnapped
Fonda’s manager Alan Somers sent The Daily Caller an apology from Fonda, blaming the vulgar tweet on the images of children on migrant the U.S. border. After the threat against the president’s son, spokeswoman for the first lady Stephanie Grisham told The Daily Caller that the Secret Service has been “notified” of the tweet.
Fonda has also tweeted advocating the public caging and rape of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. The vulgar tweet said Nielsen should be “pilloried in Lafayette Square naked and whipped by passersby while being filmed for posterity.”
He also advocated for White House press secretary Sarah Sanders to be separated from her children.
doriangrey wrote:
I’m probably too old for that endeavor. Something less taxing would suit me. 🙂
@ yenta-fada:
Sony Pictures was much too restrained in describing Peter Fonda’s psychotic ravings. IMAGINE anybody tweeting about Michelle Obama in that fashion. Cities would have been on fire with calls for blood in the streets.
@ yenta-fada:
Wanna play a game?
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17382/history-roman-empire
😉
@ yenta-fada:
Wait a minute. Peter Fonda DELETED his tweet. Twitter didn’t BAN him for hate speech?
eaglesoars wrote:
Generally, losing a single aircraft, or causing damage to a single aircraft, unless in combat or due to equipment failure that is not attributable to your failing to perform the correct pre-flight inspections causes pilots to lose their wings. Let alone four.
yenta-fada wrote:
… and if the shoe were on the other foot (cough, cough, Roseanne, cough, cough), the left would be screaming and demanding that the movie be pulled regardless of how “unfair” it was to the producer and other actors.
/now we have an analogy that absolutely proves the point.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Computer games> hhahaha. I’m still looking for the spot on my computer where I’m supposed to change the typewriter ribbon./
@ AZfederalist:
The left wants the right to just DIE. It’s a completely unhinged POV.
They do not hear themselves at all.
@ yenta-fada:
It’s a board game, hoser!! 😉
Along the lines of this:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1563/rise-and-decline-third-reich
They take a WHILE, though. But if I hit the lottery I’m coming up there…
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Aw, ya called me hoser. It’s a bygone term of endearment lol
@ yenta-fada:
I know!!:-)
Gotta hit the hay.
Love ya Yenta!
Nite!
yenta-fada wrote:
I wish there were LOL buttons available, this would certainly qualify! 😎 😎
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/06/21/lmao-the-babylon-bee-hilariously-obliterates-dem-fury-over-trumps-border-eo/
@ Twitchy
This may be the most accurate headline that you will ever read. Oh, good morning.
AZfederalist wrote:
Ahhh, but daddy McCain was an Admiral and so was grand daddy McCain, rank hath its privilege doncha know…
yenta-fada wrote:
Depending on how you count it the Rome lasted anywhere between 800 and 1400 years. (roughly speaking) that’s way to much history to cram into a Cliff’s Notes and do it any justice.
You could try something like this, but believe me, it is a very very short and condensed version of Rome’s history. (only 122 pages).
https://www.amazon.com/ROME-Ancient-History-Empire-Military-ebook/dp/B00WT6PE04
or this ( a scant 46 pages)
https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Rome-History-Beginning-Civilizations-ebook/dp/B01MRWLSZN/ref=pd_sim_351_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=2B2K9R8BZEWPB093D8CD
Neither of these briefest of outlines constitute a scholarly detailing of Roman history, they are pretty much Cliff’s Notes on the subject.
@ doriangrey:
If you should decide that an more exhaustive look is required…
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (All 6 Volumes)
https://www.amazon.com/History-Decline-Roman-Empire-Volumes-ebook/dp/B00HIM09MM/ref=pd_sim_351_7?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=2B2K9R8BZEWPB093D8CD
Oh, look, its 6 volumes now, it was only 5 when I read it many many years ago.
@ doriangrey:
And yes, its “Kindle” so it’s only $1.99
doriangrey wrote:
Sorry, that’s actually suppose to be a joke. The author (Edward Gibbons) died 167 years before I was even born. Though it is not a joke to say that those 6 tomes are considered the definitive work on Roman Empire.
It should also be noted, that Gibbon’s amazing books deal with the Roman Empire, not the Etruscan’s that preceded Rome, not the Roman Republic, nor the Second Roman Empire aka Constantinople. Had Gibbon dealt with them as well, that 6 volume set would likely have been around 37 volumes.
to the glory of SPQR!!!
HAIL, CAESAR!
😆
Sooo, coffee is now good for your heart…
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/caffeine-protect-heart-helping-make-energy-mouse-study/story?id=56026309
Thirty Years On, How Well Do Global Warming Predictions Stand Up?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/thirty-years-on-how-well-do-global-warming-predictions-stand-up-1529623442
Spoiler alert, EPIC FAIL, James Hansen was and still is completely full of shit.
Translation: Freedom of speech is now threatening our Marxist agenda.
Please do not threaten, just sue them into bankruptcy.